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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1993

WE HAVE BEEN DOING A CERTAIN AMOUNT, IMPROVING,

FOR EXAMPLE, TWO CRUCIAL

CITY.

BUS AND FERRY SERVICES, BUT WE NEED TO DO MORE, AND THE ISSUES THAT WE SHALL NEED TO RESOLVE ARE, FIRST OF ALL THE QUESTION OF ROUTE THREE, AND SECONDLY THE ISSUE OF THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF RAIL SERVICES BETWEEN THE NORTH-WEST NEW TERRITORIES AND THE

IN DUE COURSE, SO I HOPE THAT I CAN SATISFY THE HONOURABLE MEMBER, WITH A SPEECH, AND 1 HOPE THE SPEECH SAYS AT LEAST SOME OF WOULD LIKE IT TO SAY.

LAND

WHAT HE

AT

AS THE

ON CONTAINER TERMINAL NINE, ALL I FEEL IT NECESSARY TO SAY THIS POINT IS THAT THE PROCEDURES FOR CT9 HAVE BEEN THE SAME

PROCEDURES IN PROCEDURES FOR CT8, WE HAVEN'T IN ANY WAY CHANGED THE

THAT COURSE

IMPORTANT THE

COMMISSION, AND I HOPE THAT IN DUE PROJECT

WILL GO FORWARD SMOOTHLY. AS THE HONOURABLE MEMBER

BY ABOUT KNOW, HONG KONG'S PORT INCREASES ITS CAPACITY YEAR ON YEAR

IT'S AN INDICATION OF THE SAME AMOUNT AS, SAY, OAKLAND OR SEATTLE. WHAT A HUGE PORT WE HAVE AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO OUR ECONOMIC WELL- BEING.

WILL.

HAVE REPEATEDLY REV.

MR GOVERNOR, NOW YOU FUNG CHI-WOOD: SAID THAT YOU WILL ABIDE BY THE VOTE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON THE ISSUE OF THE 1995 ELECTIONS. IF YOU GO BY THE SAME PRINCIPLE, TAKING ENDORSED INTO CONSIDERATION THE FACT THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HAS THE MOTION TO ABOLISH THE DOUBLE-RENT POLICY, WILL YOU, THEREFORE, ACT THIS ACCORDINGLY? TF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY CONTINUES TO

THEIR DECISION? POLICY, WILL YOU USE YOUR POWER AS GOVERNOR TO VETO AND IF THE POLICY IS TO CONTINUE, WOULD YOU, THEREFORE, THERE WILL BE

THE AN ADVERSE EFFECT IN

CO-OPERATION GOVERNMENT AND THIS COUNC1L?

I THINK THAT THE

MAINTAIN

THINK THAT BETWEEN THE

BE

I

COUNCIL WOULD THE GOVERNOR: SURPRISED IF I WERE TO SAY THAT AS GOVERNOR I WOULD REJECT WHATEVER PROPOSALS THE COUNCIL EVENTUALLY AGREED ON THE 1994/95 ELECTIONS. THINK THE COUNCIL WOULD REGARD THAT AS UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR ᏢᎪᎡᎢ .

I THINK THE COUNCIL WOULD BE EQUALLY SURPRISED IF I SAID

1 BECAUSE

TOOK

THAT WHATEVER THAT VIEW, I ALSO TOOK THE VIEW COUNCIL DECIDED AT ANY MOMENT, WOULD BE ACCEPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE. DON'T THINK THAT WOULD NECESSARILY BE THE BASIS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT, OMNISCIENT AS THE COUNCIL DOUBTLESS IS FOR MUCH OF THE TIME.

ON MY

THAT

THE

I

WILL

IN

AUTHORITY

IN RELATION TO DOUBLE-RENT POLICY, THE HONOURABLE MEMBER KNOW THAT THE MAIN JUSTIFICATION FOR THAT POLICY ISN'T AN INCREASE

HOUSING FUNDS TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY BUT IS SENSIBLE ALLOCATION OF AND FAIRNESS. I THINK I AM RIGHT IN SAYING THAT MOST OF THOSE WHO ARE OF THE INCOME PAYING

DOUBLE RENT ARE PAYING ABOUT FIVE PER CENT A

EXCESSIVE TO GOING INTO THE HOUSEHOLD, WHICH DOESN'T SEEM, I THINK, MANY PEOPLE. NEVERTHELESS, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE HOUSING WILL BE REVIEWING THE POLICY LATER IN THE YEAR AND I AM SURE THAT THEY COUNCIL. WILL TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE

IF SOME [ AM ALSO SURE THAT THEY WILL TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT PEOPLE, WHEN THEY REACHED A CERTAIN LEVEL OF INCOME WEREN'T ENCOURAGED ΤΟ

BECOME HOME OWNERS OF FLAT OWNERS, THAT THERE WOULD THEN BE HOUSES OR FEWER FLATS IN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY TO ALLOCATE TO WHO ARE ON THE WAITING LIST.

FEWER OTHERS

/DR. PHILIP