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THURSDAY, JANUARY

+WE MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN THE GREEN PAPER AND THE WHITE PAPER, AND IN SUBSEQUENT PUBLICITY, THAT TO BE A VOTER IN A FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY ONE HAD TO BE A REGISTERED VOTER FOR THE DISTRICT

BOARD ELECTIONS.

+NOW OBVIOUSLY THAT PUBLICITY DID NOT, SHALL WE SAY, REACH ALL THOSE IT SHOULD HAVE REACHED. I DON'T THINK THAT WAS OUR FALLT.

*BUT IF THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE WHOLE PROCESS OF ASSEMBLIN MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FROM FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IS LIKELY TO BE FRUSTRATED IN ANY WAY BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT THAT MANY MEMBERS OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, THEN OBVIOUSLY WE SHALL HAVE TO SEE IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT

IT, BY SOME DEVICE OR ANOTHER, HE SAID.

ASKED TO COMMENT ON REPORTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONSIDERING RELAXING REGULATIONS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS, SIR PHILIP SAID, +1 READ THAT STORY. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IT IS TOTALLY SPECULATIVE.+

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT OF THE WALLED CITY, THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR SAID, THE WALLED CITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF HONG KONG.+

ASKED WHY HE WAS LEAVING HONG KONG ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS RETIREMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, SIR PHILIP SAID, +1 HAVE BEEN A CIVIL SERVANT FOR 34 YEARS. I THINK IT'S TIME THAT I RETIME AND REJOIN MY FAMILY IN ENGLAND.+

ASKED ON WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO AFTER HIS RETIREMENT, HE SAID, +LIKE ALL ELDERLY CIVIL SERVANTS, I ALWAYS LEAVE THAT FOR THE LAST MINUTE. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM GOING TO DO.+

PROSPECTS IN CIVIL SERVICE STILL GOOD

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THERE WERE STILL GOOD OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, SAID TODAY.

NOTING THE CONCERN OF SOME STUDENTS ABOUT FUTURE CHANCES OF JOINING THE CIVIL SERVICE, SIR PHILIP ADDED:

+LET ME MAKE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS, FOR THE TIME BEING, SEEKING TO STABILIS THE SIVE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE DOES NOT MEAN A MORATORIUM JPE RECRUITMENT IN 1985-86. FAR FROM IT.*

SIR PHILIP WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREERS EXHIBITION THIS MORNING IN THE FONG SHL CHUEN HALL, HONG RONG POLYTECHNIC.

NAL GOVERNMENT