DEC 31 '85 17:48 GIS HK
P.6
Date:
30.12.85
Time:
9.35
10.45 a.m.
Reporter:
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You mean in this year, or
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any time?
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Yes, with regard to the appointment
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of the Secretary for Housing.
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But why has it taken so long?
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We have been rearranging as you know,
the schedules of secretaries and moving quite a number of people around, and the Acting Secretary for Housing is coping very well with the problems of running the Housing Branch and the Housing Department, while we complete this reorganisation within the Secretariat, and the allocation of duties. But hasty appointments and hasty decisions in this field, would not be sensible. We need to take these decisions
one by one, and not have the whole place in a turmoil all at once. We've been reorganising the Lands and Works Group of Departments and the responsibilities in that field, and all these things are related.
Is the new Secretary coming from
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I couldn't tell you that.
At this time of course, the Housing Department has more than its share of difficulties, which as you said, the Acting Secretary has had to kind of deal with, even though he is not the full Secretary. And I think a lot of people are wondering, to leave this department, at this difficult time, without a full secretariat is quite unusual. Is it just that there hasn't been anybody really qualified to take the post all this time?
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No, it is because Mr Pang himself,··
has been dealing with the problems very capably and well.
Why not just make him Secretary then?
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