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Colleges, identifying new boundaries for 1991 elections
will not be an easy task. Things such as population
size, background and interests of the local population must be considered. It is necessary to avoid including
several districts which are far apart, and with contrasting
backgrounds.
Member elected have to respond to the
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needs and demands of the people within the constituency and thin
which may prove to be a difficult task in some cases.
This would adversely affect the efficiency of the
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ed and the effectiveness of his work.
A case in point is my constituency,
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the New Territories South, which comprises of 72 District Board Members and four District Boards, whose
territory stretch to the fastern, festern and Southern le. limits of Hong Kong. In terms of population, it
has close to 800,000.
It is extremely difficult
to look after the interests of each District. This
problem has been reflected to the Administration
many times and I am not the only one who advocates the splitting up of the constituency or increasing the number of seats in this constituency. Unfortunately,
these calls have apparently been ignored by the Government.
The White Paper does not provide
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for adequate changes to prepare for future development of representative government. The ten Official Members remain and the number of appointed Members is only reduced by two. As I have submitted earlier,
gradual change is essential to maintain stability. However, the gradual change in 1988 will have to
be followed by a drastic change between 1991 and
1997.
I cannot accept the suggestion
that since through direct elections/ people from
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