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The Chief Secretary, Sir David Akers-Jones, declined to comment on the dispute after a public function yesterday.
Several papers reported that Legco Unofficial Szeto Wah saw Mr Allen Lee's remarks on Mr Richard Lai as an insult to his
constituency.
Speaking before a reception held by the Reform Club last night, Liberal MP David Alton said the HK Government had not fully consulted the public on the Daya Bay plant.
He personally felt that there was no need to build the plant because there were alternative ways of generating electricity.
Mr Alton said that HK people should not pin their hope on 'Mrs Thatcher supporting them in their anti-nuclear campaign as the Prime Minister herself was a supporter of nuclear energy.
HK people would be able to achieve more by reflecting their views to Peking, he added.
Sing Tao Jih Pao quoted agency reports as saying that HK Link, group which had contacts with the anti-nuclear coalition in HK, planned to stage a series of anti-nuclear demonstrations during the HK Governor's visit to London.
A report by the HK China News Service yesterday quoted two nuclear experts from China, Lu Guangyi and Lin Puisheng, as saying that the Daya Bay plant would bring more good than harm to Guangdong province and HK. They were here to organise an exhibition on nuclear technology •
Wednesday, September 10: The main contracts for the Daya Bay plant were expected to be signed in Peking on September 23, RTHK reported yesterday, quoting the first deputy general manager of the Guangdong Nuclear JVC, Sir Jack Cater.
The story was also carried in a number of papers today.
According to RTHK and some papers, visiting Liberal MP David Alton, who met four Legco members yesterday, said the final contracts should not be signed until the public here had been fully consulted and their views assessed.
lle said ho would raise the Daya Bay issue with the Foreign Secretary, 8lr Geoffrey Howo.
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