NOVEMBER 23, 1984
VERY FEW WANT DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1985, GOVERNOR SAYS ******
VERY FEW PEUPLE MAD JUGGCOICU
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L ELECTIONS
IN 1985, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE YUNG FUNG SHEE MEMORIAL CENTRE IN KWUN TONG, SIR EDWARD SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD TAK LAT AYOUT WHAT THE PUBLIC SAID THEY WANTED TO DO BEFORE PUBLISH THE TE PR ON THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG.
A REVIEW IN 1987,
ECT ELECTIONS CAN (BODY W HAS TWO
+WHAT WE HAVE SAID IS THAT THERE WILL BE WHICH IS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS IN 1988, THAT BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THAT REVIEW, AND EV! OR THREE YEARS IN WHICH THEY CAN DISCUSS THIS HE SAID.
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+ IT IS NOT A SIMPLE QUESTION DIRECT ELECTIONS - IT HAS A NUMBER OF FACETS, AND SO THERE WILL BE A TIME IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DISCUSS IT, CONSIDER IT.
CONSIDERED IN THE 1987 REVIEW, AND THEN A DECISION WILL
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ON HIS FORTHCOMING VISIT TO LONDC, The LOVERNOR SAID,
THE HIS MOST IMPORTANT DUTY WAS UNDOUBTEDLY TU TALK emben OF PARLIAMENT AND BE AVAILABLE TO THEM IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THEY WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE REACTION TO THE DEEMENT IN HONG
TO OPLE IN KONG, AND ON MATTERS WHICH WERE STILL OF CONC: HONG KONG.
+ THE FIRST OBJECT OF THE VISIT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE DEBATE AND BEING AVAILABLE FOR MP'S IF THEY WANT TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS, + HE SAID.
SIR EDWARD SAID HE WOULD BE WITH HELCO PART OF THE VISIT AND ON SOME OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
+BUT I WILL ALSO BE DOING SOME NORMAL HONG KONG BUSINESS WITH THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AND OTHERS + HE SAID.
+ IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU THAT I DO QUITE A LOT OF NORMAL HONG KONG BUSINESS APART FROM THE FUTURE, HE SAID.
HE ADDED THAT THERE WOULD BE EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR UMELCO MEMBERS TO MEET PEOPLE LIKE THE ANGLO-HONG KONG PARLIAMENTARY GROUP WHILE IN LONDON.
+AND I AM SURE THEY WILL BE HAVING A NU OF DISCUSSIONS WITH INDIVIDUAL GROUPS OF MP'S.
+AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO GIVE A RECEPTEN WHILE WE ARE THERE, AND TO THAT WE WILL INVITE A LOT OF .. WHO HAVE BEEN HERE, AND A NUMBER OF OTHERS WHO HAVE EXPRESSED ANTEREST IN THE HONG KONG QUESTION, WHICH IS NOW RATHER MORE TAN THERE WAS ABOUT A YEAR OR TWO AGO, HE SAID.
/SIR BOWARD