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To:-
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Staff Relations in the Hong Kong Civil Service
The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs, Lord Shepherd, has directed me to reply to
your letter to him dated 7 June concerning staff
exed
relations in Hong Kong,
and its enelegure
which
I am to say that your letter
veet carefully studied together
with the note of the meeting you held with Mr. Daniel
Jones, MP in April.
Lord Shepherd sees no reason why after only one
year's experiment the Senior Civil Service Council
should be regarded as failing to provide an effective
consultative body. Indeed he is pleased to note that
on 16 June the staff side agreed to the continuation
of the Council for a further period of at least one
year, with only one minor amendment to its constitution.
appears to
The Council seemingly provide adequate machinery
for full and frank discussion of service-wide matters.
At the same time individual Associations remain free
as before to represent sectional matters outside the
Council and individual officers continue to enjoy the
right to proceed by way of petition. It is sometimes
inevitable that Staff Associations which participate in
joint consultative machinery of this kind have to
sacrifice a viewpoint, even a sectional interest, for
/ the general good ...
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