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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1900

"THE

STEP NEXT

WAS INDIRECT

ELECTIONS

TO

THE

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. THE PROCESS WAS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY WHEN THE DEBATE ON BASIC LAW BEGAN, HE ADDED.

"I

PEOPLE

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THIS DEBATE HAD PRODUCED MANY NEW

THE PROCESS OF WILLING TO STEP FORWARD AND PLAY AN ACTIVE PART IN MOULDING HONG KONG.

"THEY GRAPPLED WITH A UNIQUE POLITICAL PROBLEM AND HAVE REAL DETERMINATION AND RESOURCEFULNESS IN THE PROCESS," HE SAID.

"WE NEED TO BUILD ON THIS," SAID SIR DAVID, ADDING THAT 1997 HONG KONG WOULD BE RUN BY HONG KONG PEOPLE.

BHOWN

AFTER

"THAT BASIC LAW.

IS A KEY ELEMENT OF BOTH THE JOINT DECLARATION

AND THE

ARE

"THE TASK IS NOT A SMALL ONE. BUT AGAIN THE OPPORTUNITIES

WILLING TO COMMIT GREAT. FOR IT WE NEED PEOPLE OF STATURE WHO ARE THE GOVERNOR SAID. THEMSELVES TO PUBLIC SERVICE,

COUNCIL

WOULD HAVE ELECTION IN

THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT IN 1991, THE LEGISLATIVE WOULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT MAJORITY OF ELECTED MEMBERS WHO GAINED THEIR SEATS THROUGH THEIR OWN EFFORTS TO SECURE EITHER DISTRICT OR FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES.

AND

"THIS WILL REQUIRE MANY MEN AND WOMEN PREPARED TO STAND UP MUCH HARDER BE COUNTED' TO TAKE PART IN ELECTIONS; TO WIN AND

OTHER PREPARED TO LOSE; TO SHOW LEADERSHIP; TO SACRIFICE TIME AND

AND DILIGENT COMMITMENTS IN ORDER TO GIVE HONG KONG THE RESPONSIBLE SIR DAVID SAID. LAW-MAKERS THAT IT NEEDS AND DESERVES,

BEST "HONG KONG IS NOW A WORLD CLASS METROPOLIS. IT NEEDS ITS

IS WIDE AND BRIGHTEST TO PLAY A FULL PART IN GOVERNMENT. THE FIELD OPEN.

UP A BODY OF FUTURE THE

"WE HAVE THE TALENT TO ENSURE THAT WE BUILD

GUIDING LEADERS EXPERIENCED AND COMMITTED POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

AND OUT LEGISLATIVE AND

LOCAL

LEADERSHIP

"NOW IS THE TIME FOR THAT TALENT TO COME OUT INTO THE OPEN PLAY ITS PROPER ROLE IN OUR SOCIETY," THE GOVERNOR SAID, POINTING

TO FOCUS ON THE TENDED THAT

ATTENTION ALTHOUGH

A

FOR NEED TOO WAS EXECUTIVE BLSEWHERE.

COUNCILS,

THERE

GOVERNMENT

PROPERLY QUALIFIED AS A RESULT MANY RECRUITED AND ADVANCED

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT WITHIN THE CIVIL SERVICE, THE HAD FOR SOME YEARS FOLLOWED A POLICY OF GIVING

PRIORITY FOR APPOINTMENT, AND AS LOCAL APPLICANTS HUNDREDS OF TALENTED LOCAL PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROUGH THE SYSTEM.

"HALF OF OUR POLICY SECRETARIES ARE LOCAL OFFICERS. SO ARE MOST

OF THE HEADS OF OUR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS,

M

HE SAID.

/"THE PROVISIONS