WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1986
+ IT WAS DURING THESE PAST FOUR YEARS THAT MEANS HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY DEVISED AND IMPLEMENTED TO INCLUDE ELECTED MEMBERS IN THIS COUNCIL, BY CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT ARRANGEMENTS CONFORMING TO OUR NEED TO FIND BROAD AGREEMENTS AND THE COMMON GROUND: AND TO FIND SIMPLE UNCONTROVERSIAL MEANS OF LINKING THIS COUNCIL WITH COMMITTEES ADVISING ON OUR OTHER PROGRAMMES AND PROBLEMS.
+DURING THESE YEARS, THE CONSULTATIVE AND ADVISORY ROLE OF DISTRICT BOARDS HAS BECOME A FIRMLY ESTABLISHED, INDEED ESSENTIAL, PART OF THE SYSTEM OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AS IT DEVELOPS AND EVOLVES. WE CAN SEE IN THESE ARRANGEMENTS THE GREAT IMPORTANCE HE ATTACHED TO RESPONDING TO THE PUBLIC WILL AND TO SERVING THE COMMON GOOD.
+ IN THIS CHAIR, FOR WHICH I SUSPECT, AS A FORMER NAVAL OFFICER, HE HAD A PARTICULAR AFFECTION (BECAUSE IT CAME FROM THE OLD NAVAL COURT), SIR EDWARD LISTENED THROUGH MANY LONG AFTERNOONS, AND SOMETIMES LATE EVENINGS, TO THE VIEWS OF THE COUNCIL ON THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION, ON NATIONALITY, VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR PLANT.
+ AND HE REPRESENTED, WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION, THE VIEWS OF THIS COUNCIL TO HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.
+AND HE TRAVELLED UNTIRINGLY IN FULFILMENT OF THIS MISSION ON BEHALF OF THE INTERESTS OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC YOU SPEAK FOR AND REPRESENT.
+HIS DEATH IS IRREDEEMABLE.
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+HONOURABLE MEMBERS, SIR EDWARD MOVED WITH QUIET CONFIDENCE AMID MANY UNCERTAINTIES AND MANY CONFLICTING VOICES, LET OUR FERVENT WISH BE TODAY, THAT, INSPIRED BY HIS EXAMPLE, IN A SPIRIT OF UNITY AND GIVE AND TAKE, WE, TOO, CAN SEE OUR WAY THROUGH THE MONTHS AND YEARS THAT LIE AHEAD.+
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