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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1994

QUESTION:

—

TERRITORIES

CONTROVERSIAL

WITHOUT

SHOULD PAY

MR PATTEN, REFERRING TO MISS CHRISTINE LOH'S AMENDMENT, CAN YOU SAY WHY THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THERE ARE CRITICISMS FROM THE

WHY

SUPPORTS THIS THE GOVERNMENT NEW

RESIDENTS

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, ISSUE AT THE LATTER HALF OF THE

CONSPIRACY IS THERE A

BEHIND CONSULTING THE CHINESE SIDE?

IN

YOU OR YOU, AS A GRADUATE

HISTORY, THIS SUPPORTIVE POSITION?

COLONIAL HISTORY CONCERNING THE NEW RESPECT TO THE TERRITORIES LEASE.

GOVERNOR:

I

THAT IF I OR ANY THINK

OTHER

GOVERNOR OR

CHIEF

SECRETARY HAD A TEN DOLLAR BILL FOR EVERY TIME WE HAVE BEEN SAID TO BE I THINK THAT THE PART OF SOME CONSPIRACY, WE'D RETIRE EXTREMELY RICH.

WE PUT SUGGESTION IS LITERALLY AND IN EVERY PARTICULAR, LUDICROUS.

IN THE FORWARD A BILL BEFORE CHRISTMAS TO DEAL WITH WHAT EVERYBODY

THE UNFORESEEN APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY AGREED WAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM:

IF TRADITIONAL INHERITANCE RIGHTS TO PROPERTY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

IN YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, ASK THE 340,000 FAMILIES WHO WERE AFFECTED,

THEN AFTER A NEW KOWLOON AND IN THE NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

LAW, LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES THOUGHT THE BILL HAD BECOME

OF US THIS AMENDMENT WAS PUT DOWN AND IT WAS PUT DOWN WITHIN WEEKS

PAPER GREEN HAVING TO RESPOND TO 1,100 COMMENTS ON OUR OPPORTUNITIES.

ON EQUAL

YOU WOULD HAVE OVERLOOK IN A WHAT

CONSPIRACY

IF WE HAD RESPONDED IN ANY OTHER WAY, BEEN SUGGESTING THAT WE WERE INVOLVED IN SOME CONSPIRACY TO THE 1,100 PEOPLE, 90% OF WHOM HAD RESPONDED TO THE GREEN PAPER WAY WHICH QUESTIONED INHERITANCE RIGHTS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. YOU HAVE HERE ISN'T A CONSPIRACY, ISN'T EVEN THE SMALLEST IN HUMAN HISTORY, WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS A GOVERNMENT TRYING TO RESPOND AS POSITIVELY AS POSSIBLE TO THE COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY, WHILE AT NEW THE SAME TIME BEHAVING AS REASONABLY AS POSSIBLE TO THOSE IN THE

THIS ABOUT TERRITORIES WHO HAVE WORRIES AND ANXIETIES POINT.

PARTICULAR

COMMISSION

QUESTION:

MR PATTEN, DO YOU FEEL THAT THE SETTING UP OF A

QUESTION RIGHTS

WOULD HELP TO RESOLVE THE TERRITORIES INHERITANCE RIGHTS?

OF THE

HUMAN NEW

UP

NO.

BUT

THE SETTING DON'T THINK I

OF A HUMAN RIGHTS GOVERNOR: COMMISSION WOULD MAKE VERY MUCH DIFFERENCE TO THIS ISSUE, THERE ARE ALL OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO ADDRESS WHICH HAVE BEEN RAISED BY A NUMBER OF LEGISLATORS, INVOLVING DISCRIMINATION,

COMMISSION ON HUMAN INVOLVING A COMMISSION FOR WOMEN, INVOLVING A RIGHTS AND INVOLVING OTHER MATTERS, AND WE WILL BE DISCUSSING DURING THE COURSE OF THE SUMMER.

THOSE

QUESTION:

DO YOU EXPECT TO DISCUSS THE PERGAU DAM AFFAIRS ?

GOVERNOR:

NO.

/QUESTION: