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resulted in there being no
direct
answer
given
to
the most
important
issue
of whether
direct
or elections should
should
not be introduced in 1988.
This is the
most fundamental flaw
and would have been
sufficient
in
itself
to
vitiate
the
reliability of the two surveys in
relation to this
particular
issue.
Section F3, all the experts that I
Secondly, as to the phraseology of the questions in
have consulted as well as
those who have
expressed a
in view
public through the mass
media, are agreed that
the
copied questions
from
the Green
Paper
summary
were much too
complicated
understood by the ordinary citizens of
and technical to be
Hong Kong and that
no
professional survey company should have framed the questions in
that particular way.
was that it
A GB McNair's answer to the Omelco Panel
had decided to adhere straightly to the wording of the options
contained in the summary of the Green Paper as
well as to the
But this was not true
order in which the options were set out.
in relation to some other
issues
in raised
the Green
For example: in Section
A 3
Paper.
which dealt with the Role of the
District Board, the relevant question contained
some additional
words which were a clear improvement. Likewise, in Section Il
which dealt with the sequence and timing
of elections for the
District
Boards,
useful
words had
also been added to
the