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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1985

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+MR .K. YEUNG WILL BE PLEASED TO HEAR THAT PERSONALLY I CAN FORESEE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERAL MORE GREEN PAPERS AND WHITE PAPERS HAVING TO BE WRITTEN OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, BY SOMEONE. BUT AT EACH STAGE, WE MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO TRY TO DO TOO MUCH AT ONCE.

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+ AS MR FRANCIS TIEN SO APTLY POINTED OUT, A DIET WHICH IS TOO RICH CAUSES INDIGESTION, OBESITY AND HEART ATTACKS.

+ MR ALLEN LEE EXPRESSED SURPRISE AT WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS THE SPEEDING UP OF THE PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN 1985 SET OUT IN THE WHITE PAPER AND SUGGESTED THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE RESULT OF PRESSURE FOR DEMOCRATISATION FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. HE THEN WENT ON TO PROPOSE A VERY RAPID DEVELOPMENT INDEED IN THE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF SELECTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1988, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN THE INTRODUCTION OF 20 DIRECTLY ELECTED UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS AND THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF ALL THE APPOINTED UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS.

+ I FIND MR LEE'S SUSPICIONS AND HIS PROPOSAL DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE. FURTHERMORE, I CAN ASSURE HIM THAT THE MODIFICATIONS WHICH WERE MADE TO THE ORIGINAL GREEN PAPER PROPOSALS WERE BASED ON THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG DURING THE CONSULTATION PERIOD, AND ON THE PRACTICAL, ONE MIGHT ALMOST SAY THE ARITHMETIC, REALITIES OF THE SITUATION,

+ SEVERAL MEMBERS HAVE COMMENTED ON THE PLANS FOR ELECTIONS BY THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

+ ALTHOUGH JUDGING FROM VARIOUS COMMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE BY MR P.K. YEUNG, I DETECTED A GENERAL CONSENSUS, WITH MAY BE ONE OR TWO DISSENTING VOICES SUCH AS MR CARL TONG, DETECTED

A GENERAL CONCENSUS THAT THE PROPOSED MIX OF ELECTED, APPOINTED AND OFFICIAL MEMBERS 24:22:10 WAS ABOUT RIGHT FOR THE TIME BE ING. AND THE VALUE OF RETAINING THE EXPERIENCE OF APPOINTED MEMBERS WAS RECOGNISED, I WAS VERY GLAD TO HEAR, WAS RECOGNISED BY FOR EXAMPLE MR CHAN YING-LUN AND MR KEITH LAM.

→ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS ALREADY DEALT WITH A NUMBER OF THE MORE LEGALISTIC POINTS RELATING TO THE ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND SO I WILL CONFINE MY COMMENTS TO THOSE OF A MORE GENERAL NATURE.

+MR F.K. HU THOUGHT THAT THE NUMBERS OF MEMBERS TO BE ELECTED BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES ORIGINALLY PROPOSED IN THE GREEN PAPER NAMELY SIX OF EACH -- WAS SUFFICIENT.

+ON THE OTHER HAND MR WONG LAM THOUGHT THAT THE INCREASED NUMBER OF 12 MEMBERS TO BE ELECTED BY THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES PROVIDED FOR IN THE WHITE PAPER WAS TOO SMALL.

+MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG SUGGESTED THAT AN ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY SHOULD BE CREATED FOR THE PROFESSION OF ACCOUNTANCY, AND AN ADDITIONAL CONSTITUENCY SHOULD BE CREATED IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOR THE HEUNG YEE KUK, MR PETER POON, AND DR KAM CHAM SUPPORTED THE CLAIMS OF THE ACCOUNTANTS, AND SO DID MR CARL TONG, FOR THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY SEAT FOR THEM.

-MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG