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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1984

ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT MONITORING TEAM. MR YEUNG DESCRIBED IT AS +ESSENTIAL AND A POSITIVE STEP+ AS IT WOULD ENSURE THE FAIRNESS AND IMPARTIALITY OF THE ASSESSMENT OFFICE.

HE ENVISAGED THAT THE TEAM SHOULD COMPRISE TENTATIVELY THREE MEMBERS TO BE APPOINTED FROM AMONG INDEPENDENT, DETACHED AND WIDELY RESPECTED PERSONS, ONE RESPECTIVELY FROM BRITAIN, HONG KONG AND ANOTHER ADVANCED COUNTRY.

HE ALSO BELIEVED THAT AFTER THE RESPECTIVE REPORTS OF THE OFFICE AND THE TEAM WERE PUBLISHED THERE WOULD BE PUBLIC RESPONSE AND THE ASSESSMENT OFFICE SHOULD CONTINUE TO COLLECT RELEVANT OPINIONS FOR REFERENCE IN THE LATER STAGES.

THANKS FOR MEMORABLE SESSION, SAYS SIR PHILIP

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THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, PRESIDING AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING TODAY, THANKED ALL MEMBERS AT THE CLOSE FOR THEIR WORK IN A MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING+ 1983-84 SESSION.

MEMBERS, HE ALSO SAID, COULD PROCEED ON THEIR ANNUAL RECESS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR +A SESSION TO COME WHICH IS UNLIKELY TO BE LESS INTERESTING OR LESS DEMANDING+ THAN THE ONE WHICH CLOSED TODAY.

SIR PHILIP SAID:

+HONOURABLE MEMBERS, THAT ENDS THE FORMAL BUSINESS OF THIS

SESSION.

+ IT HAS BEEN A SESSION FULL OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT1 FROM ITS DRAMATIC START IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR TO DEAL WITH THE HANG LUNG BANK CRISIS THROUGH TO THIS AFTERNOON'S DEBATE ON WHAT ONLY CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBJECT OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE.

*THIS SESSION HAS CONSISTED OF 27 SITTINGS, AN INCREASE OF FIVE OF OVER THE 22 SITTINGS OF THE LAST SESSION AND DURING THIS SESSION 86 BILLS HAVE BEEN PASSED AND 37 RESOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE MEMBERS ASKED 181 QUESTIONS, AND THESE WERE FOLLOWED UP WITH 279 SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS.

/+THESE NUMBERS