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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1987

EDUCATION AND

THE BOARD, THEREFORE, RECOMMENDED THAT TERTIARY TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS PRODUCE MORE GRADUATES IN ACCOUNTANCY.

THERE HAD

A CHANGE OF RECRUITMENT PATTERN ALSO REFLECTED THAT BEEN INSUFFICIENT LOCAL TRAINED ACCOUNTING MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS.

MONTHS

BEFORE THE SURVEY,

WITHIN A PERIOD OF 12

ABOUT PROFESSIONALS HAD BEEN RECRUITED FROM OVERSEAS TO FILL POSTS AT

LEVELS.

NEVERTHELESS, AN EXPLANATION GIVEN THESE OVERSEAS RECRUITS MIGHT WELL BE HONG FOR RE-EMPLOYMENT HERE.

190

THESE

FOR THE

KONG

CHANGE WAS THAT EMIGRANTS RETURNING

1986, THERE WERE ABOUT

SEPTEMBER THE SURVEY SHOWED THAT IN 51,000 ACCOUNTING EMPLOYEES IN THE FOUR SURVEYED SECTORS.

IN

EMPLOYERS FORECAST THAT THE NUMBER WOULD INCREASE TO 54,000

CENT AND THREE 1987 AND THEN TO 55,800 IN 1988, A GROWTH OF SIX PER PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THE 1986 MANPOWER SURVEY REPORT ON ACCOUNTANCY, CONTAINING IS NOW UP-TO-DATE EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS OF THE ACCOUNTING WORKFORCE, ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS SALES CENTRE AT $15.50 A COPY.

CUSTOMS CRACKDOWN ON FAKE GOODS IMPORT INCREASED

CUSTOMS AT

THE AIRPORT FAR THIS YEAR SPOKESMAN FOR THE

THE NUMBER OF TRAVELLERS ARRESTED BY FOR IMPORT OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS HAS ALMOST TREBLED SO

PERIOD LAST

A YEAR, AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

AND

COUNTERFEIT GOODS MAY HE WARNED THAT TRAVELLERS WHO BRING IN BE PROSECUTED AND ARE LIABLE ON CONVICTION TO A FINE OF $500,000 IMPRISONMENT FOR FIVE YEARS.

IMPORTS

END OF

BY

AIRPORT

PERIOD

COMMENTING ON THE MARKED INCREASE IN COUNTERFEIT GOODS

RESIDENTS, HE SAID UP BY BOTH TOURISTS AND LOCAL

TO THE

NOVEMBER, 233

PASSENGERS INCOMING

HAD BEEN ARRESTED CUSTOMS THIS YEAR, WHILE ONLY 85 ARRESTS WERE MADE IN THE SAME

LAST YEAR.

/"THE VALUE