the general good and to avoid clashes of opinion,
which might otherwise result in a collapse of the
machinery. It has taken many years of effort,
patience and striving for mutual understanding for
similar arrangements in Britain to achieve the
present high standard of staff relations.
After
only a year's experience in Hong Kong it is to be
expected that the Associations and the official side
taking part in the Senior Civil Service Council
should still be feeling their way with this new
machinery while gaining experience in the give and
take of the consultative process which will, as long
as the right spirit of good will prevails, provide a
basis for the achievement of the Council's objects.
•
Lord Shepherd is accordingly unable to agree
that there is any need to appoint a Commission to
enquire into staff relations in the Hong Kong Civil
Service, He hopes that your Association will give
its wholehearted co-operation in a common endeavour
to make the existing arrangements work.
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