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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987

SURVEY REPORT "NOT WORTH ITS PAPER"

THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT CONTAINED DISTORTIONS

THE HON K. C. CHAN SAID. IT NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

WHICH RENDERED

WITH

WERE

DEBATE ON THE SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT, MR CHAN NOTED THAT SOME 230,000 SIGNATURES IDENTITY CARD NUMBERS VOLUNTARILY SIGNED IN A SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN EXCLUDED.

STEREOTYPE LETTERS THE ON

OTHER

SOME HAND,

70,000 SIGNATORIES THE

WERE INCLUDED, THAT EMPLOYED ORGANISATIONS DISTORTING THE PERCENTAGE OF SUPPORTERS FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS IN HE SAID.

FROM

THUS

1988,

TOO 45 PER

QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY'S

CONTAINED MR CHAN ADDED THAT THE MANY DIFFICULT-TO-UNDERSTAND AND LOADED QUESTIONS WHICH 40 TO CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS DID NOT UNDERSTAND.

"NO MATTER HOW

DILIGENTLY, CONSCIENTIOUSLY

AND METICULOUSLY REPORTS, THE

THE SURVEY OFFICE STAFF AND THE MONITORS COMPILED THEIR RESULT WOULD BE GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT," HE SAID.

IN OUTER

BRITAIN CHINA

CHINA AND 1945,

HELD A

IN MONGOLIA, WHILE

HAD PLEBISCITE

IN EXPERIENCE

THE ON

A 1967, BRITAIN HELD

REFERENDUM HELD IN

HE OBSERVED THAT BOTH USING A REFERENDUM. INDEPENDENCE OF REFERENDUM ON THE GIBRALTAR ISSUE. A MORE RECENT BRITAIN WAS FOR THE ENTRY INTO THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.

HE SAID THAT IN ALL THESE CASES, THE QUESTION ASKED WAS SIMPLE, JUST APPROVAL OR REJECTION.

HE ADDED THAT ALTHOUGH REFERENDUM WAS NOT A DIRTY WORD, IT RESISTED IN THE STRONGEST TERMS BY BOTH BRITAIN AND CHINA.

WAS

WITH

REALISTIC

ASKING FOR A REFERENDUM AT THIS TIME WOULD BE NEGOTIATING

COULD EASILY FORECAST THE A TIGER FOR ITS SKIN, AND ONE OUTCOME, HE SAID,

MR CHAN REITERATED THAT ALTHOUGH HE WAS HE STILL SUPPORTED DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988.

AN APPOINTED

MEMBER,

AND HONG PEOPLE WOULD THEIR

HE SAID THAT IF A BUFFER BETWEEN THE BORDER OF CHINA KONG WAS NOT ESTABLISHED BY DIRECT ELECTIONS SO THAT HONG KONG WOULD ADMINISTER HONG KONG, THE CONFIDENCE OF HONG KONG PEOPLE SUFFER AND THOSE WHO WERE YET INDECISIVE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE UP MIND AND VOTE WITH THEIR FEET.

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