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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988

THAT THE PAST SPEAKING IN THE POLICY DEBATE, MR CHEONG NOTED

MORE EXPLANATION FEW YEARS HAD SEEN MORE INFORMATION BEING RELEASED,

AND MORE INITIATIVE TO INTERACT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ITS POLICIES WITH THE PUBLIC BY WAY OF CONSULTATION.

THE DIRECTION WAS SOMEWHAT SLOW, HE SAID.

RIGHT, BUT

THE PACE

OF

OPENING

UP WAS

HAD NOT BEEN FORTHCOMING

BEEN FULL ENOUGH; THOROUGH ENOUGH, HE

INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED, BUT THAT ENOUGH; EXPLANATIONS WERE GIVEN, BUT THEY HAD NOT CONSULTATIONS WERE DONE, BUT THESE HAD NOT BEEN

ADDED.

OUT OF ITS OLD то FEND OFF FLAK BUT

MR CHEONG SAID THE GOVERNMENT NEEDED TO COME AIR-TIGHT ARMOUR SUIT WHICH MIGHT SERVE WELL WOULD ALSO INHIBIT ITS FLUID MOVEMENT.

THE FIRST ISSUES FOR THE

THIS, HE SAID, WAS PERHAPS ONE OF PROPOSED THINK TANK TO DO SOME GOOD THINKING ABOUT.

IT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD HUMAN BEINGS AND THEY WERE EQUALLY

TURNING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE, HE SAID THAT CIVIL SERVANTS WERE JUST WORRIED ABOUT THEIR FUTURE.

THIS MIGHT BE

PARTICULARLY

SO

THE WITH

TOP THINKING OF TAKING OFFICERS. MANY OF THEM MIGHT BE

IN POLICIES IN A FEW YEARS' TIME OR SETTLING FOR GOOD FANCIED.

ADMINISTRATIVE OUT INSURANCE WHEREVER THEY

HARDLY

THIS FRAME OF MIND, PLAGUED BY UNCERTAINTY, TO THE LONG-TERM COMMITMENT NECESSARY IN DEALING WITH THE LONG-TERM PROBLEMS.

CONTRIBUTED TERRITORY'S

"WOULD SUCH

NEGATIVE

MIND

OF

HAVE

THEIR FRAME

INFLUENCED THAT MAY HAVE LONG-TERM JUDGEMENT WHEN THEY TOOK VIEWS ON POLICIES

BE A POSSIBILITY

POLICY THAT EFFECTS ON HONG KONG? COULD THERE

UNDUE DELAY OR EVEN COMMITMENTS WHICH HAVE LONGER TERM EFFECTS GET PUSHED ASIDE?" HE QUESTIONED.

HOW TO PUT THE HEARTS OF

STABILISE THE CIVIL SERVICE

+

CIVIL

SERVANTS AT

-

WAS

EASE AND HENCE THE BACKBONE OF HONG KONG'S FUTURE

CONCERNED ONE OF THE BURNING ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED BY ALL PARTIES CHINA, THE UK AND HONG KONG, HE SAID.

URGED

REFERRING TO THE PROBLEM OF A LABOUR SHORTAGE, MR CHEONG

UP

A WORKING PARTY COMPRISING SET

IMMEDIATELY THE GOVERNMENT TO LEADERS FROM GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND LABOUR SECTORS.

DEVISE THE WORKING PARTY WOULD EXAMINE THE PROBLEM IN FULL AND

THAT WOULD BE IN THE CONCRETE PROPOSALS FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION LONG-TERM INTEREST OF HONG KONG'S CONTINUED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

/INDUSTRIALISTS WERE