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am certain that the public a large expects us to find the

necessary staff, and accepts that overseas recruitment

is necessary at the present time, particularly in the fields.

I have mentioned.

22.

I should now like to table some statistics on the

number of local and overseas officers in the civil service,

in the hope that these will aid objective discussion of

the subject.

23.

*

Table I shows that the total number of overseas

officers has increased over the past 8 years from 1,859 to

2,868, while the number of local officers has increased from

76,116 to 112,623. This means that the proportion of overseas

*

officers in the Civil Service is almost the same now (2.5 per

cent) as it was eight years ago (2.4 per cent). I expect this

proportion to rise to about 2.6 per cent over the next year or

two, primarily because of the need to recruit more staff from

i overseas to enable us to proceed on schedule with major

public works, housing, the new towns, and development of

the Police Force.

Table I

/Table II..

Total Numbers of Local and Overseas Officers in the Hong Kong Civil Service

Local

as at

No.

of total

Overseas

%% of No. total

Total Strength

1.1.70

· 76,116'

1.4.78

97.6%

112,623 97.5%

1,859 2.4%

77,975

2,868 2.5%

115,491