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RESIGNATIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE STEADY

*

RESIGNATIONS FROM THE

SECRETARY (WEDNESDAY).

FOR

THE

1.89 PER CENT OF THE STRENGTH OVER A

MR

CIVIL

SERVICE,

CIVIL SERVICE WERE STEADY, AVERAGING FIVE YEAR PERIOD, THE DEPUTY

SAID TONY EASON,

TODAY

AND THERE

WAS NO REASON

ΤΟ

DOUBT

THAT

FINAL

FIGURES THAT TREND,

OF

RESIGNATIONS FOR THE 1987/88 FISCAL YEAR WOULD VARY FROM

HE SAID.

ON COMMENTING

IN

A

NEWSPAPER

THE FIRST NINE

CIVIL HAD

MR EASON WAS

THAT REPORT

SERVANT RESIGNATIONS

MONTHS OF 1987/88 INCREASED BY 34 PER CENT COMPARED TO THE FULL 12 MONTHS OF 1986/87.

WHILE NOT DISPUTING THE CONCLUSION OF THE ARITHMETIC MR EASON SAID THE RESIGNATIONS HAD TO BE TAKEN IN THE CONTEXT SIZE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE AS A WHOLE.

INVOLVED,

OF THE

WAS

IN 1982/83, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STRENGTH OF THE CIVIL SERVICE

PER CENT. 154,034 AND RESIGNATIONS TOTALLED 3,943, REPRESENTING 2.56

TN

FOUR YEARS

1.93 PER CENT, THE SUCCEEDING RESIGNATIONS 1.98 PER CENT, 1.56 PER CENT AND 1.43 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

THIS

WERE

FIVE

THAT 13

OF JANUARY MR EASON CONFIRMED THAT FROM APRIL 1987 TO THE END YEAR THERE HAD BEEN

(INCLUDING RESIGNATIONS 3,334

ΤΗ 3,336 RESIGNATIONS IN DIRECTORATE LEVEL STAFF) BUT LIKENED THAT 1984/85 WHICH ALSO INCLUDED FIVE DIRECTORATE STAFF. HE NOTED DIRECTORATE LEVEL STAFF RESIGNED IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

"THE NUMBER OF RESIGNATIONS THIS YEAR IS BY NO MEANS

UNUSUAL,

HE SAID.

1

NEW MEDICAL CLINIC OPENS IN SAI KUNG

**

KUNG

BE WILL

FURTHER TODAY

MEDICAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES IN SAI UPGRADED WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW CLINIC IN THE DISTRICT (WEDNESDAY).

KUNG

TOWN, IS

THE SHAW

THE NEW CLINIC, LOCATED IN MAN NIN STREET IN SAI NAMED AFTER MADAM MONA FONG, DIRECTOR OF SHAW BROTHERS (HK) LIMITED,

OF THE IN APPRECIATION

$3 MILLION

BY DONATION MADE FOUNDATION TOWARDS THE CAPITAL COST OF THE PROJECT.

/MADAM FONG