Mr Lam Wah-hui
Hon. General becretary
Government Echool Non-Graduate
Teacher's Union
46-48 on king Building
Kowloon HONG KONG
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KŁA 280/1
12 October 1977
The Decretary of tete has asked me to thank you for your letter of 2 Leptember 1977 and to reply on his behalf.
I am also reply-
in to the identically worded letter which you sent on the same date to hr tewart, the head of this Department.
Your
Your Union,
We have investigated the points raised in your letter. contention that your Union has not been recognised by the on Long Government as a consultative body does not a cord with the Secretary of tate's understanding of the position. together with other unions and associations representing staff employed in the duction Department, is a member of the duction Department Consultative Council and has subscribe to its constitution.
I am advised that both of the matters to which you referred in your
The letter have been discussed in the Consultative Council. Government primary schools that have been converted for use as secondary schools would in any event have had to cease operation
The use of the as pri ary schools owing to under-utilization. surplus premises of some of these schools to create new secondary schools to be managed within the aided sector is seen to be in accordance with the policy in the 1965 White Faper that Government should provide schools only where an aided school cannot be provided. This matter has been discussed on several occasions in the Consultative Council since u ust 1976 and it has been also the subject of correspondence on several ocasions between your union and senior officers of the Government Secretarist.
The second matter raised in your letter, the on hong Govern- ment's decision to re-deploy or retire over the next three years Government primary school teachers who are surplus to operational
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