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to the Legislative Council-District Boards relationship 20 only ? This argument is also valid when applied to the Urban Council-District Boards relationship. The necessity for cross-membership arrangement is doubtful when considered in such light. I wonder whether it is really necessary to have District Board members sitting in the Urban Council to replace the exfofficio membership of Urban Councillors on the pistrict Boards. The Urban Council has been functioning satisfactorily under the present system in which its members are half directly elected and half appointed. To increase the number of its members through elections among District Boards may only turn it into a political arena; as the newly-elected Councillors would have to fight for the respective interest of the Boards they represent. As a result, the Council may be split into fractions and its efficiency will be severely hampered.
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