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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1992
GOVERNOR:
NO,
I DON'T BELIEVE IT
IS.
I
BY
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE
IN THIS FUNCTIONAL TAKING
IN
TAKE IT THAT THE RATIONALE FOR FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, WHICH DON'T EXIST IN EVERY COMMUNITY BUT HAVE OBVIOUSLY A ROLE IN OUR DEVELOPMENT, I TAKE IT THAT THE RATIONALE IS AND WAS THAT
FUNCTION AS WORKERS SHOULD HAVE REPRESENTATION LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
IF I'M ASKED HOW TO EXTEND CONSTITUENCIES, CAN'T SEE ANY BETTER WAY OF DOING IT THAN
ARGUMENT TO ITS REASONABLE, THOUGH NOT IN MY
THEIR
Is
THAT LOGIC.
JUDGMENT, ABSURD I'M NOT SURE WHY WE CAN ARGUE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT SOMEBODY WHO GOES OUT IN A FISHING BOAT EVERYDAY ISN'T PERFORMING A FUNCTION CAN USEFULLY AND PROPERLY BE REPRESENTED IN THIS COUNCIL.
WHICH ENTIRELY
I'M CONVINCED -
NOT AND I DON'T MEAN TO SINGLE OUT BANKERS PARTICULAR
IN THIS REGARD BUT I DON'T ENTIRELY SEE WHY BANKERS REPRESENTED BUT NOT PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE RETAIL SECTOR.
SHOULD BE SECTOR
THE RETAIL HAS A CERTAIN FAME IN HONG KONG. WHY NOT PEOPLE WHO WORK THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, WHO PROBABLY HAVE MORE FAME THAN TERMS OF OUR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS?
POINT WHICH PROPOSALS
ANYBODY
IN
IN
A
BUT I COME BACK, DR WONG, TO I BEGAN WITH. IF THERE ARE THOSE WHO DON'T REGARD AS
MY REASONABLE, AS BALANCED, AS SENSIBLE, LET FORWARD THEIR OWN PROPOSALS.
THEM PUT IF THERE IS A BETTER WAY OF DEFINING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE 9 ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, WHAT ARE THEY TO BE? WHO ELSE ARE WE TO REPRESENT? ARE WE TO CHAMBERS
REPRESENT OTHER OF COMMERCE? ARE WE TO REPRESENT TEXTILE WORKERS THOSE WHO WORK IN AGRICULTURE OR FISHERIES?
BUT NOT HOW ARE WE TO DO IT? THINK THERE IS A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ENSURING THAT AT THIS STAGE
I OUR POLITICAL
OF DEVELOPMENT, HONG KONG HAS A LEGISLATURE BROADLY REPRESENTATIVE.
WHICH IS I TAKE IT THAT THAT WAS THE FUNCTIONAL
ARGUMENT FOR CONSTITUENCIES, I TAKE IT THAT THAT IS THE ARGUMENT I'M - I TAKE IT THAT THAT WAS THE ARGUMENT WHICH THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IN THE AND I AM WHOLLY WITHIN,
BASIC LAW, IN MY VIEW AND HOPE THE COMMUNITY'S VIEW, BOTH THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER OF THE BASIC LAW IN WHAT I HAVE PUT FORWARD.
BEING CHARITABLE UNDERPINNED
-
-
I'M MUCH OBLIGED TO MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL FOR GIVING ME THEIR ATTENTION TODAY. THAT THE COUNCIL WILL BE ABLE TO WELCOME ME ON FUTURE OCCASIONS, EXAMPLE, I HOPE THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER MY RETURN FROM I WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THIS COUNCIL. THEN WE WILL HAVE ARRIVED AT ARRANGEMENTS WHICH ENABLE ME TO SPEND HOUR OR TWO WITH THE COUNCIL SLIGHTLY NEARER TO HONOURABLE
BUT FOR ADJOURN 1992.
HOPE FOR PEKING, CONCEIVABLY BY
HONOURABLE
I
AN
MEMBERS,
THE TIME BEING, IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDING THE COUNCIL UNTIL 2.30 PM ON WEDNESDAY THE 14TH
ORDERS, I NOW
OF
OCTOBER
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