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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987

WAS CALLED

BUT IT WOULD

OF THE GOVERNMENT HE SAID THAT IF THE INTEGRITY SERIOUSLY INTO QUESTION THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT FALL,

· EASE TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY BECAUSE IT WOULD NO LONGER BE TRUSTED..

MR CHEONG SAID THAT SINCE REPORT, ATTEMPTS HAD BEEN MADE TO DISCREDIT THE GOVERNMENT.

ON PUBLICATION

THE SURVEY OFFICE

WAGE A

TO CAMPAIGN WITH INTENT

AS WELL AS THROUGH

I

"IT HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY ALLEGED IN ORGANISED FORA THROUGH ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE MEDIA THAT THE GOVERNMENT, THE SURVEY OFFICE AND IN COLLUSION WITH THE MARKET RESEARCH FIRM, HAD ISSUE OF SUPPORT FOR DIRECT PURPOSELY MISLED THE COMMUNITY ON THE ELECTIONS TO THIS CHAMBER IN 1988," HE SAID.

OVER THE

DESIGN

OF DESPITE STRONG VOCAL OBJECTIONS BY A FEW

THERE THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE ISSUE OF INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTIONS,

THE OF

QUESTIONNAIRE ON WERE VERY FEW CRITICISMS OVER THE DESIGN OTHER RELATED AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES RAISED IN THE GREEN PAPER.

THE FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY OFFICE

NOT WANT DRASTIC DID

THAT THE PROPLE IMMEDIATELY, HE SAID.

GENERAL TREND INTRODUCED

A INDICATED

CHANGES TO

BE

IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THIS TREND WAS APPARENT SOLICITED VIEWS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO THE DISTRICT BOARDS, COUNCILS, THE PRESIDENCY OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AGE.

AND

WHICH HAD

MUNICIPAL

THE VOTING

CONTEXT AND ELEMENT IN THE

"WE MUST TAKE ACCOUNT OF THEIR VIEWS IN ITS TOTAL

PARTICULAR ISOLATION AT ONE IN LOOK SHOULD NOT EQUATION," HE SAID.

OF THE INDEPENDENT MONITORS MR CHEONG ALSO SAID THE REPORTS

ANYONE CONDEMNED MUST BE OBJECTIVELY TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BEFORE THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT.

THE TWO MONITORS, MR ANDREW SO AND MR F.K. LI, OF PRINCIPLE AND UNQUESTIONED INTEGRITY,

OVERSEEING

"IT IS THEREFORE ONLY RIGHT THAT WE

OF

IN QUALITY GATHERING EXERCISE, HE SAID.

THEIR WORK

*

WERE BOTH MEN

THE

GIVE DUR WEIGHT TO THE WHOLE PUBLIC OPINION

FOR

FINDINGS OF THE MR CHEONG SAID IT WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR FROM THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT THAT, IN PRINCIPLE, THERE WAS STRONG SUPPORT

LEGISLATIVE AN ELEMENT OF DIRECT ELECTIONS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO THE

QUESTION COUNCIL. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE SPLITTING THE COMMUNITY WAS THE OF TIMING.

/"MAT I