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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990

IN MR LEE'S ADEQUATELY RENUMERATED.

OPINION, CIVIL

SERVANTS

WERE, IN GENERAL,

URGED

UNION LEADERS

WORKING

CLASS

AND

AS FAR AS THIS YEAR'S PAY INCREASE WAS CONCERNED, MR LEE CIVIL SERVANTS TO LISTEN CAREFULLY TO PUBLIC REACTION.

OF THE GENERAL OF THE VIEWS SHOULD BE AWARE MAN-IN-THE-STREET, HE NOTED.

WAS

SERVICE

THEIR HE POINTED OUT THAT CIVIL SERVANTS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT IT THEIR DUTY TO SERVE THE PUBLIC, AND ANY DISRUPTION IN COULD LEAD TO SOCIAL UNREST LOCALLY AND BAD PUBLICITY OVERSEAS. HE STRESSED THAT CIVIL SERVANTS HAD A MAJOR ROLE TO PLAY TIME WHEN HONG KONG WAS AT "THE CROSSROAD OF CHANGES IN THE MATRIX".

AT A POLITICAL

IS A STABLE CIVIL "WHAT WE NEED

|| HE SAID. CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE,

SERVICE

TO TAKE UP THE

REVIEW THE- GOVERNMENT SHOULD MR LEE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE

AND ASK ITSELF SUCH SOUL-SEARCHING CIVIL SERVICE, SIZE OF THE

HOW CAN WE QUESTIONS AS: "IS THERE ANY FAT THAT CAN BE TRIMMED?

CAN PRODUCTIVITY CIVIL SERVICE? A MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE INCREASED?"

HAVE

BE

THE FINANCE

FOR

AS CHAIRMAN OF THE ESTABLISHMENT SUB-COMMITTEE OF COMMITTEE, MR LEE UNDERTOOK TO LOOK INTO THE MATTER WHEN REQUESTS ADDITIONAL POSTS COME UP IN THE FUTURE.

THIS

ΤΟ MESSAGE MR LEE CONCLUDED HIS SPEECH WITH

WHETHER WE SINK SERVICE: "WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER.

AND THE TOGETHERNESS DEPENDS ON OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE FUTURE

TOGETHER, PROBLEMS FACE WE SHOULD OUR COMMUNITY. TOGETHER AND RESOLVE PROBLEMS TOGETHER.”

TACKLE

THE

CIVIL OR SWIM

OF

PROBLEMS

SAW REAL

IN DANGERS

BUDGET ENORMOUS PUBLIC SECTOR

ΤΟ FIND WAYS OF

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE SHOULD BE CUT

* * *

SHE SAID TAM, MARIA THE HON PLANNING BASED ON EXPENDITURE IN VIEW OF THE EXPENDITURE ON INFRASTRUCTURE.

SHE BELIEVED THAT HONG KONG SHIFTING THE TAX BURDEN TO THE LOWER INCOME GROUPS.

BEGINNING WAS

ON THE APPROPRIATION

MISS COUNCIL.

SUCH DANGERS

TAM

BILL SAID

SPEAKING DURING THE MOTION DEBATE

THE LEGISLATIVE 1990 TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE NEEDED TO BE TRIMMED DOWN WERE TO BE REDUCED.

IF

/TO ACHIEVE