4.
The quotation
2
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from
Sir Edward
Youde
(towards the bottom of the page) is out of
It is also incomplete. His next
context.
sentence was: "At that time
too
it would be
possible
to
to
direct
elections
to
consider whether there was a wish
based on
introduce
geographical constituencies or whether to continue
develop further the system of indirect
elections". The quotation was drawn from Sir
Edward Youde's address to the Legislative Council
on 18 July 1984 when he was introducing the 1984
Green Paper. That paper proposed certain changes
to the composition
the Legislative Council
in 1985 and 1988, and a
and a review in 1989. In the
event, following public consultation, the changes
envisaged for 1985 and 1988 were both implemented
in 1985 and the review was brought forward to
1987.
of