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CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

Report of the Civil Service Branch for the period 1st February 1978 to 30 April 1978

APPOINTMENTS DIVISION

192 vacancies within PSC's purview were

advertised locally between 1.2.78 and 30.4.78. On 30.4.78,

222 posts were under recruitment overseas (including 75

Police Inspectors for 1978/79). 95 newly appointed

officers (including 20 Police Inspectors) assumed duty

from overseas between 1.2.78 and 30.4.78.

2.

Recruitment to the rank and file of the Police

Force between 1.1.78 and 31.3.78 totalled 428. On 31.3.78

there were 257 vacancies in the rank and file establishment

of 16,328. The establishment is expected to increase

soon and the recruitment target from 1.4.78 to 30.6.78 is

684.

3.

Since the scheme to re-deploy surplus Government

primary school teachers to other jobs within the

Education Department and other Government departments was

announced in July 1977, 350 such teachers have been

re-deployed or had their applications for early retirement

approved. The estimated surplus by September 1980 (the

date when compulsory retirement will take effect, if

necessary) has therefore been reduced from 1,100 to

750 so far.

GENERAL GRADES DIVISION

4.

The Secretarial Class dispute is not currently

There is no unrest in the

a live issue in Hong Kong.

CONFIDENTIAL