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+BUT I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE PRACTICABLE TO BRING FORWARD FORMAL REVIEW FROM 1987. AFTER ALL, WE HAVE ONLY JUST COMPLETED THE ELECTIONS. THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL NOW NEET AND WE MUST GIVE IT SOME TIME TO SETTLE DOWN AND TO ESTABLISH ITS METHODS OF WORKING BEFORE WE REVIEW THE ARRANGEMENTS, HE SAID.
ASKED WHETHER HE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE DIRECT ELECTIONS BY 1988, SIR EDWARD SAID HE WAS GOING TO LEAVE ALL THOSE ISSUES TO THE 1987 REVIEW.+
AS TO HOW HE SAW THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, SIR EDWARD SAID, IT WAS GOING TO BE THE OPERATION OF THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND THE WAY IN WHICH THE MEMBERS OF IT DECIDE THEY SHOULD OPERATE.
+ I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE QUITE AN ENCOURAGING PERIOD, + HE SAID.
REPLYING TO ANOTHER QUESTION, SIR EDWARD SAID THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE VOTING IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGES WERE THEMSELVES FROM THE DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCILS AND HAD CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
+AND THEY ARE IN ALL THE PROFESSIONS, THERE'S QUITE A HIGH TURN-OUT IN THE PROFESSIONS AND IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES.
THE GOVERNOR SAID HE WONDERED IN HOW MANY COMMUNITIES WOULD THERE BE SUCH LARGE PROPORTIONAL INSTANCES OF PARTICULAR PROFESSIONS VOTING IN THIS KIND OF ELECTION.
+SO I THINK ON THE WHOLE THAT THE SYSTEM HAS WORKED VERY MUCH AS IT WAS DESIGNED TO WORK AND HAS WORKED VERY SUCCESSFULLY, THE GOVERNOR SAID.
AS TO WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE DOING IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PREPARING FOR THE 1987 REVIEW, SIR EDWARD SAID THAT IT WOULD +BE LISTENING VERY HARD, FOR A START TO THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE COMMUNITY+.
THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ALSO BE WATCHING THE WAY IN WHICH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WORKED, AND IN PARTICULAR, WOULD BE MONITORING THE REACTION OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE TO THE RESULTS OF THIS ELECTION, SO THAT IT WOULD BE ABLE TO JUDGE FROM THAT WHAT ISSUES SHOULD GO UP FOR REVIEW IN 1987.
A NUMBER OF THE ISSUES HAD ALREADY BEEN SET OUT IN THE WHITE PAPER, AND THE AGENDA, OR PART OF THE AGENDA, WAS IN THE WHITE PAPER, HE SAID.
+AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT PEOPLE WILL PRODUCE MANY MORE QUESTIONS, HE SAID.
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