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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1987

WORKS OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL COMMENDED

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ACTIVITIES OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND ITS COMMITTEES MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROCESS OF GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

PRESIDING HIS FIRST COUNCIL MEETING SINCE HE TOOK UP OFFICE, SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS AWARE OF THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORKS MEMBERS DEVOTED TO THE ACTIVITIES NOT ONLY OF THE COUNCIL BUT ALSO OF ITS COMMITTEES AND OF OMELCO.

+ALL THESE ACTIVITIES MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROCESS OF GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG.+

HE ALSO THANKED MEMBERS FOR THEIR SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY AND SAID HE LOOKED FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM AND PRESIDING OVER THEIR DEBATES.

PLEDGE OF SUPPORT TO LEGCO'S NEW PRESIDENT

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SENIOR MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE HON LYDIA DUNN, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PLEDGED, ON BEHALF OF HENBERS OF THE COUNCIL, FULL AND WHOLE-HEARTED SUPPORT TO SIR DAVID WILSON, WHO WAS PRESIDING OVER THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE AS GOVERNOR.

SHE ALSO THANKED SIR DAVID FOR HIS WORDS OF GREETING DELIVERED AT THE BEGINNING OF TODAY'S SITTING AND EXTENDED TO HIM A VERY WARM WELCOME TO HONG KONG AND TO THE COUNCIL.

MISS DUNN SAID TO SIR DAVID THAT HE WOULD FIND SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS LIVELY AND INTERESTING. THEY REFLECTED A WIDE RANGE OF VIEWS FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY.

·AND IT WILL BE CLEAR TO YOU THAT WE ALL OF US SHARE A COMMON OBJECTIVE, THAT OF THE WELL BEING AND GOOD GOVERNMENT OF THIS TERRITORY,+ SHE SAID.

+WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR GUIDANCE AND PLEDGE OUR FULL AND WHOLE-HEARTED SUPPORT TO YOU AS GOVERNOR AND AS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNCIL, SHE ADDED.

SHE ALSO WISHED SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON, WHO WAS AT THE PUBLIC GALLERY, A LONG, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL STAY IN HONG KONG.

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