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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1988

IN THE DEPARTMENT

"HE OR SHE WILL DIRECT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ASSIST IN STRATEGIC PLANNING UNDER THE GENERAL SUPERVISION OF THE THE LATTER TO DEVOTE SUFFICIENT SOLICITOR GENERAL, THUS ENABLING

OF LEGAL NUMBER

POLICY ISSUES ATTENTION TO THE INCREASING REQUIRING HIS ATTENTION.

AND

"THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL

BE

CONSISTENT

WITH

THE LARGE LEGAL THE FIRM'S PROFESSIONALS GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN

FIRMS WHO EMPLOY FULL-TIME ADMINISTRATORS RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS TO ALLOW THE LEGAL

H A WORK, TO CONCENTRATE ON THEIR PROFESSIONAL SAID.

CIVIL THE

ONE OR

RECRUITMENT TO FILL THE NEW POST WILL BE FROM WITHIN THE

ALTHOUGH то

ALL GRADES OFFICERS OF SERVICE AND WILL BE OPEN OFFICER SELECTED WILL NEED TO HAVE CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE OF MORE OF THE MANAGEMENT AREAS UNDER HIS CONTROL.

RECENT YEARS IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT HAS EXPANDED RAPIDLY IN

ESTABLISHMENT HAS RESPONSE TO A GROWING DEMAND FOR ITS SERVICE. ITS

ARE FROM YEARS,

394 TO

OF WHOM 774, ABOUT DOUBLED IN FIVE

SUPPORT PROFESSIONALLY QUALIFIED OFFICERS WITH THE BALANCE MADE UP OF

STAFF.

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BUDGETTED EXPENDITURE HAS NEARLY QUADRUPLED IN THE SAME PERIOD, FROM $54.3 MILLION IN 1983-84 TO $210.9 MILLION IN 1988-89.

"RAPID GROWTH OF THIS MAGNITUDE INVARIABLY AND ADMINISTRATION," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

STRAINS

MANAGEMENT

MINISTER AND CS MEET HK STUDENTS

HONG KONG

WITH

HAD KINGDOM

LIVELY WITH MINISTER

SPECIAL AND THE CHIEF WEDNESDAY

A

UNITED IN THE STUDENTS

THE FOREIGN OFFICE DISCUSSION

FOR HONG KONG, LORD GLENARTHUR, RESPONSIBILITY SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, AT A RECEPTION HELD IN LONDON ON EVENING.

THE RECEPTION AT KING'

COLLEGE

KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON, MR SELWYN ALLEYNE,

WAS ORGANISED AND HOSTED BY

BY

THE

THE HONG COMMISSIONER,

GLENARTHUR

AND SIR

DAVID го THE

THE PURPOSE WAS TO ENABLE LORD MEET HONG KONG STUDENTS AND, IN PARTICULAR, STUDENTS SPONSORED BY NEWLY ESTABLISHED UNITED KINGDOM-HONG KONG SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME.

THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE SCHEME AND

CURRENTLY

UNDER IT THERE ARE PURSUING KINGDOM

UNITED IN THE

NINE HONG KONG STUDENTS COURSES AT UNIVERSITIES IN LONDON, OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE AND BIRMINGHAM,

/AT THE

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