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ON THE ISSUE BRITISH AND OBSERVE WILL

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PROCEEDED IN WELL, OF COURSE WE HAVE

COUNCIL, HAS BEFORE IT THE LEGISLATION LECTORAL AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION WHICH IS, I UNDERSTAND, AN HICH HASN'T RAISED CONTROVERSY IN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN HINESE OFFICIALS. I THINK THAT THE HONOURABLE MEMBER HEN HE LOOKS AT THE BILL, WHEN HE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY OF DOING AS OF COURSE CHINESE OFFICIALS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME WEEKS FITS PAST, I THINK THE HONOURABLE MEMBER WILL OBSERVE THAT THE BILL

ONE LOOKS AT OUR AND TOGETHER

FITS TOGETHER, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN

OF THE THE POSITION APPROACH TO DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AND TO

SO IT ISN'T EASY TO DISENTANGLE THE VARIOUS ELECTION

MEMBER ELEMENTS OF THE LEGISLATION IN THE WAY THAT THE HONOURABLE REQUESTS. CLEARLY,

CLEARLY, IF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WANT TO STAND IN THE DISTRICT FOARD ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR, YOU'D WANT TO BE ABLE BY THIS AUTUMN HAVE A PRETTY CLEAR IDEA ABOUT THE BOUNDARIES FOR YOUR LIKELY

THE ARRANGEMENTS YOU'D WANT TO HAVE A PRETTY CLEAR IDEA ABOUT THOSE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AND THE DISTRICT BOARD

COUNCIL THE LEGISLATIVE REPEAT, HAVE A CONSIDERABLE RELEVANCE TO

MAKE; 1'D PERHAPS LIKE TO ELECTIONS. THERE IS ONE OTHER POINT THAT THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING AND DEBATING HAVE TO BE RESOLVED SOONER OR LATER AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM RESOLVED SOONER SO WE CAN LAST GET BACK TO DEBATING OTHER MATTERS. I'M ONLY SORRY THAT IN THE FEW WEEKS, MATTERS HAVE BEEN RAISED WHICH, EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE OCCASIONALLY BEEN THE SOURCE OF CONTROVERSY IN THE PAST, HAVE NEVER GOVERNMENT CAUSED THE SORT OF OBSTACLES THAT WE SEE TODAY. HONG KONG

FOR 10 YEARS OR OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH TEAM IN NEGOTIATIONS, WHY NOW IS THAT A PROBLEM?

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FOR ELECTIONS. I

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