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be right to make in 1988.

In reaching those decisions,

the Government are committed to taking full account of

We all the views recorded in the Survey Office report. will, naturally, also give full regard to other relevant factors, including the need to ensure that any changes which might be introduced do not disrupt the steady progress we have been making, nor the stability which is so important to our community.

154.

(b) The Public Service

the government,

Whichever way we structure and organise the

institutions of

continuance of sound administration will depend greatly on the maintenance of a dedicated and efficient civil service. In my inaugural

I

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great

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in

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speech

said that I had

confidence experience and efficiency of the Administration. then, I have seen for myself the very high qualities of our public service. I am convinced that it is fully capable of meeting whatever challenges may lie ahead.

155.

The present top

top management structure of the

introduced in 1973. civil service was

Since then Hong

developed socially, economically

cap

Kong

has

and

politically; and the demands made on that structure have

/increased