UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE
COUNCILS CLOSE BRACKETS HAD BEEN SET UP AND HAD
GOT OFF TO AYE GOOD START STOP HE FELT WE SHOULD
HAVE AYE LOOK AT HOW UMELCO EXPERIMENT HAD
GONE AND THEN DECIDE WHETHER WE SHOULD BUILD ON THAT OR
WHAT FURTHER STEPS WE MIGHT
TAKE PARA ON QUESTION OF CHINESE AS AN OFFICIAL
LANGUAGE MISTER ROYLE SAID THAT THIS WAS ASE VERY I
SUBJECT FOR HONGKONG
STOP HE SAID HE HAD STUPIED THE PROBLEM DURING
HIS STAY HERE AND THAT HE HAD TALKED TO AYE
LOT OF PEOPLE\STOP HE WELCOMED NEWS OF AYE
COMMITTEE TO BE HEADED BY MISTER FUNG PING FAN
REPEAT FUNG PING\FAN COMMA AN EXECUTIVE COUNCILLOR
AND LEADING BANKER · AND BUSINESSMAN COMMA TO STUDY
QUESTION PARA MORE
ROYLE TAKE TWO HE STRESSED THAT ONE OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS WAS
TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT ONE MEANT BY AN OFFICIAL CHINESE
LANGUAGE PARA HE FELT THERE WAS AYE VERY STRONG CASE TO TAKE VERY
QUICK STEPS TO BRING IN SIMULTANEOUS TRANSIATIONS IN URBAN
TOE
COUNCIL IF COUNCILLORS WANTED IT STOP HE SAID IF URBAN COUNCIL
WOULD LIKE TO HAVE LEGISLATION TO ENABLE THEM TO USE CHINESE
IN THEIR DELIBERATIONS HONGKONG GOVERNMENT MOST CERTAINLY
WOULD BE SYMPATHETIC PARA AS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IT WAS
UP TO MEMBERS OF, COUNCIL TO DECIDE WHAT THEY WISHES TO
DO REGARDING THEIR RULES OF ORDER PARA HE DESCRIBED QUESTION
OF LOCAL REFORM FOR URBAN COUNCIL AS AN IMMENSELY COMPLEX PROBLEM
STOP HOWEVER HONGKONG GOVERNMENT HAD SOME PROPOSALS WHICH
IT WOULD PUT BEFORE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL VERY SHORTLY PARĂ
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