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Para. 38
There is resistance among senior officials as well as in Executive and Legislative Councils.
Para. 41
Why should there not be a new type appointee to Executive Council? The remainder of the paragraph seems to me to be very weak. I doubt if many existing LegCo Members are "genuine community leaders" and certainly they are not all of "high quality". The fact that LegCo Members work closely with the Official Side of Government should make it easier, not more difficult, to appoint a few people not necessarily very familiar with the workings of the Government machine. (See also para.44).
Para. 42
After "trade unionism" (line 20) insert "collective bargaining and after "normal growth" at the top of the nextpage, thw words "and activities".
Para. 43
It will already be apparent that I do not agree with the opening entence of this paragraph. Improvements in the environment of Hong Kong require the support of ExCo and LegCo. It is they who need to be persuaded and it is a fallacy to believe that there is any kind of "active Hong Kong opinion" which would have very much influence on those achievements. After all, they can kill almost any project in private without
I have seen many anyone being aware that they have done so. examples of this. I wonder to which "majority" the sentence in lines 12 to 14 refers? Surely not to the general population?
Para. 44
I am not at all clear what form of "institutional change" has been initiated by the Governor apart from the Mutual Aid Committees which, if I recall aright, were on the drawing board in 1970/71. All the other forms of tapping public opinion are, so far as I know, very long-established. I think one should
The Governor is
speak in any case of "accelerated development". building on an enormous fabric of consultative machinery established by his predecessors - see the relevant chapter in "Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony".
Further on in the same paragraph, I think that the word "inconceivable" is too strong and we might perhaps insert the idea that the individual Members should have secretarial and research help. Proposals to this end in 1967 were, I believe, killed by officials. So far as the public is concerned, the cost would be so modest in contrast with, for example, the
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