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Registry No. HKK 5/26
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DRAFT letter
To:-
CHUNG Wah-leung, Esq., President,
Hong Kong Chinese Civil
Servants' Association,
G.14, Main Wing,
Central Government Offices,
Lower Albert Road,
HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Sir,
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 of 7 June, 1969, concerning staff relations
in Hong Kong.
Your letter and its enclosure have been carefully
studied,and due account has been taken of the grievanæs
together with
mentioned therein, and of the note of the meeting you
held with Mr. Daniel Jones, M.P. in April 1969.//Lo
Lord
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Shepherd however, finds himself unable to agree that
there is any need to appoint a Commission to enquire
into staff relations in the Hong Kong Civil Service and Achwes
feels that it would be regrettable if, after only one
year's experiment, the Senior Civil Service Council should
cease to be an effective consultative body. The Council
seemingly provides adequate machinery for full and frank
discussion of service-wide matters which concern the
staff, while leaving provision for individual Associa-
tions to represent sectional matters outside the Council, and ensuring that the rights of individuals by way of petition are not
affected by the creation of the Senior Civil Service
hard I was pleased to
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Council.
It is also noted that on 16 June, 1969, the
staff side of the Council agreed to continue with its
work for a further period of one year, with only one
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No comments yet.
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