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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1988

GOVERNOR WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS TO LEGCO

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS AN

IMPORTANT WILL CONTINUE,

THE NEW SESSION OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, AND THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, TOLD THE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OPENING IN HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS

THE 1988-89 SESSION OF THE HAD JUST COUNCIL, SIR DAVID WELCOMED MEMBERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO

IMPORTANT JOINED, AND EMPHASISED THAT THE BODY PLAYED AN INCREASINGLY ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY.

EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES HAD HE SAID ONE BY-PRODUCT OF THE

BEEN AND MORE LIVELY PUBLIC DEBATE ON ISSUES OF CONCERN TO THE COMMUNITY,

MEMBERSHIP OF THE DURING THE LAST SESSION IT WAS CLEAR THAT WIDER COUNCIL HAD BROUGHT WITH IT A GREATER DIVERSITY OF VIEWS AND A SCRUTINY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

CLOSER

"NOR, "THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SHRINK FROM SCRUTINY," HE SAID.

FROM THE EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENT AS A COMMUNITY, SHOULD WE SHRINK VIEWS.

ENSURE THAT

TO TRY OF THE

"WE MUST, HOWEVER, TRY TO

DIVERSITY REMAINS A FORCE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGE. IT IS THE TASK OF THE COUNCIL TO RECONCILE DIFFERING VIEWS IN A WAY WHICH ACTS FOR THE GOOD WHOLE COMMUNITY,"

A MAJOR SIR DAVID SAID THAT THOSE WHO JOINED THE COUNCIL MADE

SERVICE, AND HOWEVER COMMITMENT OF THEIR TIME AND ENERGY TO PUBLIC ARDUOUS THE TASK HE FELT SURE THAT THEY WOULD ALSO FIND IT REWARDING.

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT COUNCIL FOR THE

EXPANDING ON THE COUNCIL'S EVOLUTION, THAT THREE YEARS AGO, 24 ELECTED MEMBERS JOINED THE FIRST TIME.

BEEN FURTHER "THIS YEAR THE PROPORTION OF ELECTED MEMBERS HAS

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF TODAY

TWO NEW WE HAVE WITH US INCREASED.

FEWER APPOINTED MEMBERS, FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND WE HAVE TWO HE SAID.

"THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE. WELCOME TO THIS COUNCIL 10 MEMBERS WHO WILL BE REPRESENT GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES.

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IN 1991 WE SHALL DIRECTLY ELECTED TO

"THERE WILL THEN

BE FURTHER

IN CHANGES

STORE AS

WE

MOVE ELECTED,

TOWARDS A SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WILL BE BY ONE FORM OR ANOTHER.

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/SIR DAVID