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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 relations in
I am to say that Hong Kong. Your letter and its enclosures have been
carefully studied together with the note of the meeting
you held with Mr. Daniel Jones, M.P. in April.
Sees ho
Lord Shepherd believes that it would be regrettable
if after only one year's experiment the Senior Civil
be regarded as failing to orde Service Council should cease to be an effective consul-
IN.P. tative body. The Council seemingly provides adequate
machinery for full and frank discussion of service-wide
At the same time
matters, which concern the staff while leaving provision
reman free as belove
al for individual Associations, to represent section matters
Individual officers contin
outside the Council and Anounin~
It has taken many years of effort, patience
An of
strwing for somitar
Goran, ements in the
Bakinsk God for mutual understanding wa
for sumidar arrangements in Britan to achieve the preant-high standard of staff relations.
in
TFF to avoid clashes of opinion which might otherwise
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result in a collapse of the machinery. Indeed after
only a year's
in Liona una experience, it is to be expected that the
nce
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