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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT.

CONFIDENTAL

858 581 7058 P.17

would not make futile applications.

This is

one way of keeping down the number of applications.

The public will also be informed of the time

allowed for making applications, they could

thus make their applications in good time.

Government Public Enquiry Counters, numbering

51 and distributed throughout Hong Kong, will

be mobilised to answer enquiries on application

procedures etc.

(a)

Application method

The public will be invited to mail in their

applications. In this way, a stampede is unlikely;

and therefore the need to have extra hands

to deal with it will not arise.

(e)

Interview of applicants

The procedures are so designed that interviews

of applicants will take place only after the

applicants are short-listed and the necessary

personality checks completed (procedural flow

chart at Annex 2) Thus, only the minimum

number of applicants (i.e. potential successful

candidates) will be interviewed. Given the

set ceiling of the package, it is estimated

that no more than 50,000 principal applicants

will be interviewed in the first stage of the

Such applicants will be invited by

scheme.