HONG KONG
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 香港立法局————————————一九八九年七月十九日
19 July 1989
103
Session of the Council. We started the year with a considerable number of new Members who quickly established themselves in the collegiate way in which the Council works and have made their mark fully in the work of the Council. It has been a very busy Session.
I think we are used to records here. It is not a record amount of legislation this time but it is a record amount of amendments to clauses, some 250, and that shows the great deal of hard work that goes on behind the scenes. A large part of that is of course because of bilingual legislation that has been a major step forward for the work of this Council during the Session and the Council has taken to it willingly, starting work early in the morning and working its way through a large amount of amendments and trying to make sure that we use standard forms of Chinese for the forms of English that we use.
We started off the year as being a straightforward Session of steady progress but that has been changed over the last two months by the tragic events which have occurred in China. It is at times like this that the community look to Members of this Council for leadership and for political wisdom and I think the Council and Members of the Council and OMELCO as a whole have responded with great determination and courage to the events that we have had to face. I am sure that over the months to come the community will be able to continue to look to Members of this Council for those very same qualities.
In saying that the Council has worked hard I would like to mention also those beyond the walls of this Chamber and behind the darkened glass screen over there who have worked equally hard. The harder the Members of the Council work the harder the supporting staff also work and they have served the Council extremely well. So I would like to wish all of you a very pleasant and a very well deserved summer break.
6.46 pm
The Chief Secretary presided at the sitting during the absence of the President.
MEMBER PRESIDING: Council now resumes.
MR. EDWARD HO: Sir, Hong Kong is our home.
We have been proud of Hong Kong's achievement in the past decades. The