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No. HKK 5/26
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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
9 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.
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Lord Shepherd believes that it would be regrettable
if after only one year's experiment the Senior Civil
the regarded as failing to mori del Service Council should -eease to be an effective consul-
IN.P.
tative body. The Council seemingly provides adequate
machinery for full and frank discussion of service-wide
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matters, which concern the staff-while-leaving provision
reman free as before.
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for individual Associations to represent section matters
under dual offers con
outside the Council and ensuring that the rights of
to live individuals? by way of petition are not affected.
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Lord Shepherd was] pleased to note that on 16 June
1969 I continuation of the the staff side of the Council agreed to continue with
at-least- command -ite work for a further period of one year, with only one
minor amendment to its constitution.
It is some times inevitable that the Staff Associa-
tions which participate in joint consultative machinery
of this kind have to sacrifice a view point of c
of convie-
tion to avoid clashes of opinion which might otherwise
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you think? result in a collapse of the machinery. Indeed After only a year's experience, it is to be expected that the
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