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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994

OFFERED BY

THE ADMINISTRATION,

THE

REGARDING THE PACKAGE SPOKESMAN SAID THERE WOULD BE DIFFICULTIES IN PROCEEDING WITH IT WHILE THE ORDINANCE WAS IN EFFECT.

"THE ORDINANCE

CONDITIONS.

ANYONE PREVENTS

ΤΟ TRANSFERRING

LOCAL

"FURTHERMORE IT WAS A CONDITION OF OUR FORWARD THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SHOULD NO MANAGE THE CIVIL SERVICE THROUGH LEGISLATION.

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PUTTING OUR PACKAGE LONGER ATTEMPT ΤΟ

OFFERING CERTAIN LOWER RANK, LOCAL

DESERVING

SUCH AS MEASURES THE PACKAGE INCLUDED APPLICANTS FOR TRANSFER TO LOCAL TERMS EMPLOYMENT AT A

INDIVIDUAL HELP CONSIDERING SPECIAL MEASURES TO OFFICERS WHOSE PROMOTION PROSPECT WOULD BE AFFECTED BY MEASURE, AND OPENING UP THE POSITIONS HELD BY CONTRACT COMPETITION BY OFFICERS AT A LOWER RANK.

DO

MOVE

THE INTERIM OFFERS FOR

DECIDING

TOWARDS

A

"WE SHALL REFLECT ON THE SITUATION AS A WHOLE BEFORE

TO THERE

MORE WE CAN WHETHER

IS ANYTHING SETTLEMENT," THE SPOKESMAN CONCLUDED.

LAND REGISTRATION FIGURES FOR MARCH

AGREEMENTS OF BUILDING LAND REGISTRY LAST MONTH FOR CENT COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SALE AND PURCHASE UNITS, MAINLY FLATS, RECEIVED BY THE REGISTRATION INCREASED BY 1.7 PER MONTH, AND INCREASED BY 13.4 PER CENT COMPARED WITH MARCH LAST YEAR.

THE AGREEMENTS TOTALLED 13,241 INVOLVING $53.62 BILLION.

IN THE

MONTHLY STATISTICS

RELEASED

THESE ARE SHOWN

TODAY PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS RECEIVED (WEDNESDAY) BY THE LAND REGISTRAR ON FOR REGISTRATION AT THE URBAN AND NEW TERRITORIES LAND REGISTRIES.

A TABLE SHOWING THE RELEVANT STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY FOR MARCH 1993 WAS ALSO RELEASED.

1994 AND

THREE

BUILDING MORTGAGES

AND 13,402 OTHER MORTGAGES

COMPARED WITH SIX AND

WERE 9,272

RECEIVED FOR REGISTRATION LAST MONTH, RESPECTIVELY IN MARCH LAST YEAR.

UNDER NEW THE TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED MONTH WAS $2.85 BILLION, COMPARED WITH $1.18 YEAR.

THE

BUILDING MORTGAGES BILLION IN MARCH

LAST

LAST

MORTGAGES

OTHER THAN $5.2 BILLION IN

TOTAL AMOUNT SECURED UNDER NEW BUILDING MORTGAGES INCREASED BY 88.1 PER CENT, FROM MARCH LAST YEAR TO $9.78 BILLION IN MARCH THIS YEAR.

BY FROM

OF MORTGAGES

ALL REPAYMENTS UNDER

AS KINDS,

EVIDENCED DISCHARGES AND MORTGAGEE'S RECEIPTS, INCREASED BY 23.7 PER CENT, $2.88 BILLION IN MARCH LAST YEAR TO $3.56 BILLION IN MARCH THIS YEAR.

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