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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988

THE WHITE PAPER WAS, IN FACT, A STOP SIGN OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

TO TIE

DEVELOPMENT

TO CALL THE WHITE PAPER "THE WAY

ONESELF DECEIVING "OSTRICH POLICY", STEALING A BELL.

Fr

FORWARD' WAS ΤΟ ONE'S BY PLUGGING

FOLLOW EAR

AN WHILE

MUCH

ALONG ATTACHED MR LEE NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALL

BUT THE STRUCTURE.

WHITE PAPER WENT IMPORTANCE TO THE THREE-TIER AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS RESPECT, HE SAID.

TO

BOARD MEMBERS ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO, MORE THAN 50 DISTRICT

AGAINST OMELCO, PROTESTING JOINTLY SUBMITTED A DECLARATION DECISION NOT TO INTRODUCE DIRECT ELECTIONS IN 1988 AND TO ABOLISH DISTRICT BOARD ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

URBAN

HAD

THE

THE

REMOVAL OF THE INTRODUCTION

THEIR

OF

OPPOSED TO THE WERE COUNCILLORS EX-OFFICIO SEATS ON DISTRICT BOARDS AND ALSO TO INDIRECTLY ELECTED MEMBERS INTO THE URBAN COUNCIL.

IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

QUITE

THE WHITE PAPER

OF

WERE WERE

VIEWS ON

THAT

A

COUNCILLORS NUMBER DIVERSE AND HE BELIEVED OPPOSED TO SOME INDIVIDUAL ITEMS CONTAINED IN THE WHITE PAPER.

RATE IN LAST WEEK'S MR LEE ALSO SAID THAT THE VOTER TURNOUT

IN EVERY FIVE

WHO VOTERS DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS SHOWED THAT ONE CAST THEIR VOTES IN THE 1985 ELECTIONS HAD SHUNNED THE LATEST POLLS.

PROGRAMME

HE NOTED THAT A CALLER TO A RADIO STATION'S PHONE-IN

HIS VOTE BECAUSE HE HAD INDICATED THAT HE DID NOT TURN OUT TO CAST WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE CONTENTS OF THE WHITE PAPER.

TAKEN

ALTHOUGH THIS KIND OF BOYCOTT MIGHT NOT BE THE SOLE REASON

BE

LIGHTLY AND THE DROP IN VOTER TURNOUT, IT SHOULD NOT GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO SOME SOUL-SEARCHING AND MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BACK THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE, HE SAID.

WHO

FOR

THE

WIN

TURNING TO CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES DURING DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS, STAYED AWAY MR LEE SAID IF VOTERS WITH A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL STANDARD

STAND WERE NOT HAVE A STRONG FROM VOTING WHEREAS THOSE

HELPERS, SOME HUDDLED INTO POLLING STATIONS BY ENTHUSIASTIC CAMPAIGN VOTES MIGHT NOT BE CAST IN A RATIONAL MANNER.

DID

THE MIGHT DETERMINE SUCH ACTIVITIES PARTICULARLY IF THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE WAS LOW,

OF OUTCOME

ELECTIONS,

LOBBYING ACTIVITIES HE THEREFORE SUGGESTED THAT PUBLICITY AND

DAY OF VOTING, AND AT THE POLLING STATJONS SHOULD BE BANNED ON THE

SHOULD THAT ONLY THE CANDIDATES THEMSELVES OR A SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE BE PERMITTED TO BE PRESENT.

/ON DIRECT ................