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8.

HKG

employers

The Budget would also be a suitable occasion for

to end the popular perception that it encourages

to frustrate the free working of the labour market

through agreements among employers on annual wage

It would be particularly damaging if there were

any excuse for the general public to view HKG as part of a

cartel to suppress real wages in early 1993.

increases.

Localisation

9.

HKG can use its localisation policy to counter CPG

that the UK is determined to use the dying days

allegations

of the administration to ruin the territory:

(a) The localisation process should be speeded up

substantially, with a greater recognition of

the need

to

end dependence on expatriates in

advance of 1997.

Despite the difficulties

involved, target dates should be announced for

the localisation of all posts at or above

Deputy

Secretary

Department.

and

Deputy Head of

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