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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987
PRAGMATIC ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES KEY TO HK SUCCESS
13 THE
SIR
IS GIVEN FULL THE CREATIVE ENERGY OF HONG KONG PEOPLE, WHICH OPPORTUNITY TO FLOURISH BY PRAGMATIC ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES, KEY OF HONG KONG'S SUCCESS, THE SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE GOVERNOR, DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT TODAY (FRIDAY).
SPEAKING AFTER A CEREMONY IN WHICH SIR DAVID WAS CONFERRED
HE HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAWS BY THE UNIVERSITY,
POLICIES DISCOURAGED THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PRAGMATIC INTRUSION AND INTERFERENCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.
"HONG KONG HAS ITS
LAWS AND REGULATORY
THE
SAID
UNNECESSARY
MECHANISMS
SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE IS NOT CRUSHED BY A BURDENSOME SAID.
BUT THE BUREAUCRACY, HE
at
STYLE OF WITHOUT
SIR DAVID ADDED THAT HONG KONG HAD DEVELOPED ITS OWN
BASED UPON BROAD
COMMUNITY IN THE GOVERNMENT
AGREEMENT EXCESSIVE CONFRONTATION AND ADVERSARIAL POLITICS.
FEEL
WAS A LOCALLY BASED PUBLIC HE SAID IN EACH DISTRICT, THERE SERVANT
TO COMPLAINTS, A DISTRICT OFFICER - WHO COULD LISTEN THE PUBLIC PULSE, EXPLAIN POLICIES AND FORESTALL PROBLEMS.
RESIDENTS
HAD ALSO
ELECTED THEIR OWN SIR DAVID SAID LOCAL
SAID THEY COMMITTEES TO MAINTAIN SECURITY AND IMPROVE MANAGEMENT. HE EXERTED A COHESIVE FORCE IN A "DISPARATE HIGH-RISE ENVIRONMENT".
BY NINETEEN DISTRICT "THE WHOLE OF HONG KONG IS NOW COVERED
ARE NOT BOARDS, FORMED MAINLY BY DIRECT ELECTIONS, WHOSE DISCUSSIONS LIMITED BY CONFINING LEGISLATION,' HE SAID.
"FINALLY
OUR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
APPOINTED AND INDIRECTLY
ELECTED
POPULIST
MIXTURE CONTAINS
MEMBERS AND
A
OF
MEMBERS
REPRESENTING FUNCTIONAL GROUPS," HE ADDED.
SIR DAVID SAID IN THIS WAY THE POLITY OF HONG KONG TOGETHER BY A COMPLEX WEB OF INTERLOCKING RELATIONSHIPS WHICH RESILIENCE AND RESPONSIVENESS AND ENABLED IT TO FACE UP AND CHANGE.
ΤΟ
WAS
LINKED GAVE A CHALLENGE
PRESENTING
SIR DAVID
ΤΟ
THE
IN READER CONGREGATION,
SMYTH, SAID SIR MEDIEVAL HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT, DR A.P.
HAD SPENT HIS CAREER IN THE DAVID WAS A CAREER CIVIL SERVANT WHO SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG.
THE
DR SMYTH SAID SIR DAVID WAS THE ARCHITECT OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM IN 1981.
HONG KONG'S NEW
/"HE WAS
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