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Conclusion

25.

Having now

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responded

to the various

points

raised in this debate by Members relating to the Civil

Service, may I conclude, Sir, by touching on a matter of

particular importance to us all, but one which we tend to

take too much for granted. I refer, Sir, to the working

relationship

Service.

between

Unofficial

Members and the Civil

26.

Traditionally,

and without prejudice to the

independence of either the Civil Service or Unofficial

Members, that relationship has been a co-operative

relationship, with both sides to the inter-face realising

that, to achieve our common objective of good government,

each is dependent on the other.

27.

As

we

enter the era of representative

government, and with a growing preponderance of

Unofficial Members, not only in this Council, but also in

the Urban and Regional Councils and on the District

Boards, the need for such a co-operative relationship

between Unofficial Members and the Civil Service will

become no less important. We should nurture that

relationship carefully, e ven though the

representative government may well lead to a tendency to

more adversarial - but hopefully not factional politics

and may well diminish the easy

relationship

between Unofficial

era

ΟΙ

informality Of the

Members and the Civil