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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991

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GOVT'S OBJECTIVE TO FIND MOST SUITABLE PERSON

FOR SECRETARY FOR WORKS POST

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IT IS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST THAT THE POST OF SECRETARY WORKS SHOULD BE FILLED BY THE MOST SUITABLE PERSON, THE SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (WEDNESDAY).

FOR

CHIEF TODAY

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHENG HON-KWAN, SIR DAVID SAID THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS POST CARRIED IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS IN THE YEARS AHEAD AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT, S OBJECTIVE WAS TO SELECT THE MOST SUITABLE PERSON FOR THE POST.

"IT

IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE POST IS BEING ADVERTISED BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE CIVIL SERVICE IN ORDER THAT A WIDER CHOICE OF CANDIDATES MAY BE CONSIDERED, HE SAID.

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SIR DAVID CLARIFIED THAT THE POST WAS NOT AN AUTOMATIC PROMOTION POST FOR OFFICERS FROM THE WORKS GROUP OF DEPARTMENTS.

THE POST WOULD BE OPEN TO APPLICATIONS BOTH FROM SERVING OFFICERS AND THE NON-GOVERNMENT SECTORS, AND NOT SOLELY FROM THE LATTER, HE SAID.

NOT UNUSUAL FOR POLICE TO ASK FOR IDENTITY PROOF

IT IS NEITHER

UNREASONABLE

OF PUBLIC

NOR UNUSUAL

POLICE TO FOR THE REQUEST THE ORGANISERS

ΤΟ GATHERINGS

PRODUCE PROOF OF THE HON IAN STRACHAN, IDENTITY, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN ACCORDANCE

THE ORGANISING

MEETING

WERE

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HUI YIN-FAT, MR STRACHAN SAID SUCH MEASURE WAS TO ENSURE THAT THE MEETING TOOK PLACE WITH PERMIT CONDITIONS AND THAT THOSE PRESENT WHEN THE MEETING WAS HELD.

ANY

MR STRACHAN ADDED THAT HE WAS NOT AWARE OF GATHERINGS, OF WHICH THE POLICE HAD BEEN NOTIFIED, WHERE WERE ASKED TO PRODUCE THEIR IDENTITY CARDS.

RECENT PUBLIC PARTICIPANTS

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