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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1989

"IN ALL, SOME 34 PEOPLE ARE OFFICE IN THE FRONTLINE PRODUCTION SAID.

ENGAGED IN THE LAW

LAWS, BILINGUAL

OF

M

AND DEDICATED

DRAFTSMEN'S

MR MATHEWS

GROUP

WE

"IN PUTTING TOGETHER THIS IMPRESSIVE

PRECEDENTS TO ADOPT: WE HAD TO HAD NO MODELS TO FOLLOW, NO EASY DEVISE OUR OWN SCHEME. OUR OWN ORTHODOXY, OUR OWN TRAINING METHODS."

SECONDLY, THE

A

то HAD HAS

DEVOTE TIME TO THE SCRUTINY OF

ITSELF LEGISLATURE SIGNIFICANT PART OF ITS OWN RESOURCES AND BILINGUAL LAWS.

"THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND THE SECRETARIAT THE COUNCIL HAVE. IN A SERIOUS AND HIGH-MINDED WAY, RESPONDED TO CHALLENGE.

"NO ONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE BILINGUAL CAN FAIL TO BE IMPRESSED BY THE ZEAL AND CARE DEVOTED

SCRUTINY CAREFUL THE

IN THEIR LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED FOR ENACTMENT," HE SAID.

OF

THIS

LAWS PROGRAMME BY MEMBERS OF CHINESE

IN OF BILLS

WAS YET

MR MATHEWS SAID THE BILINGUAL LAWS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

PART IN THE BILINGUAL ANOTHER GROUP WHICH HAD PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT LAWS PROGRAMME.

LINGUISTS SCHOLARS, DISTINGUISHED HE SAID THIS GROUP OF

LAWYERS ADVISED ON THE CHINESE TEXTS OF IN ENGLISH.

AND ENACTED

ORDINANCES EXISTING

IN INVOLVED

METAPHYSICAL IN

WILL

QUALITY

IN

HOW

*CARELESSLY' THAT HAVE PERPLEXED

THOSE

TRANSLATION

BEEN EVER WHO HAVE

ALMOST THE DIFFICULTIES, APPRECIATE TRANSLATING ACCURATELY, SAY, THE EXPRESSION 'CHOSE IN ACTION' AND

OF MEANING BETWEEN DO YOU ACHIEVE THE CORRECT SHADES 'NEGLIGENTLY'

AND 'RECKLESSLY'

ENGLISH JURISTS FOR YEARS.

-

QUESTIONS

AND

PROFESSIONALISM

"IT SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR THE DEDICATION THE COMMISSION THAT THEY HAVE THROWN THEMSELVES INTO

MR MATHEWS SAID. IMMENSE VIGOUR AND DETERMINATION,

"I

OF

THIS TASK WITH

RESIDENTS CAN TAKE PRIDE IN TUEN MUN

TUEN MUN RESIDENTS CAN PRIDE

AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NEW TOWN, THE DISTRICT OFFICER MR JOHN WAN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

THIS

THE ON THEMSELVES

DEVELOPMENTS OF TUEN MUN.

TUEN YEAR'S

MUN FESTIVAL,

WAS

MR WAN, A PRESIDENT OF SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE FESTIVAL DETAILS.

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