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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1981

REMINDER ON VOTER REGISTRATION

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THE REGISTRATION OFFICER TODAY REMINDED THE PUBLIC THAT ONLY FIVE MORE DAYS WERE LEFT FOR THE RETURN OF APPLICATION FORMS FOR REGISTRATION AS QUALIFIED VOTERS IN HONG KONG.

AS THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON (WEDNESDAY) IN HIS ADDRESS OPENING THE NEW SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MORE THAN 90 000 APPLICATION FORMS HAD BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE NEW TERRITORIES, A FIGURE WHICH THE REGISTRATION OFFICER DESCRIBED AS ENCOURAGING.

IN ANSWER TO QUERIES RAISED BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THE REGISTRATION OFFICER CONFIRMED THAT SOME APPLICATION FORMS WERE PRINTED ON WHITE PAPER, IN ADDITION TO THE MAJORITY WHICH WERE PRINTED ON GREEN PAPER AND WERE ALREADY DISTRIBUTED.

HE EXPLAINED THAT THE FORMS WERE IDENTICAL IN EVERY

OTHER RESPECT, BUT THAT SUPPLIES OF THE PARTICULAR BRAND OF GREEN PAPER WERE TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK. THIS MEANS THAT ONLY ONE FORM OF EITHER COLOUR NEED BE COMPLETED, AND NOT BOTH.

HINTS ON LABOUR RELATIONS ****

UNNECESSARY LABOUR DISPUTES WOULD BE REDUCED IF EMPLOYERS SET UP JOINT CONSULTATION MACHINERY AND PAID DUE REGARD TO COMPLAINTS BY EMPLOYEES, A SENIOR LABOUR OFFICER, MR ALFRED W.K.CHAN, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HE SAID EXPERIENCE SHOWED THAT MANY LABOUR DISPUTES AROSE FROM MISHANDLING OF TRIVIAL PERSONNEL PROBLEMS. AND ON MANY OCCASIONS EMPLOYERS WERE IMPERIOUS IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES, THUS CAUSING DISCONTENT.

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE LAST OF A SERIES OF FIVE WORKSHOPS ON LABOUR RELATIONS AT QUEEN ELIZABETH STADIUM, WAN CHA!, MR CHAN SAID HIS DEPARTMENT HAD SET UP A PROMOTION UNIT IN THE LABOUR RELATIONS SERVICE TO ADVISE ORGANISATIONS AND BUSINESSES ON WAYS TO ACHIEVE HARMONIOUS RELATIONS WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES AND TO ASSIST THEM TO SET UP JOINT CONSULTATION MACHINERY.

THE SERIES OF WORKSHOP FORMED PART OF A YEAR-LONG LABOUR AND STAFF RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

UNDP) WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO).

THE FINAL PROGRAMME OF THE PROJECT IS A CONFERENCE FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD IN DECEMBER.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNDP OR THE ILO ARE EXPECTED TO COME TO HONG KONG TO ADDRESS THE CONFERENCE.