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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994

"A CONSIDERABLE

ACCEPTANCE OR APPROVAL.

REPRESENTATIONS

EXPRESSED ENABLED THE ARRIVE

WHICH

NUMBER OF THE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMISSION TO HAVE AN OVERALL REVIEW OF THE SUBJECT MATTERS TO AT A BALANCED DECISION, MR JUSTICE WOO SAID.

COMMENTS ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OR

APART FROM SOME GENERAL

MUNICIPAL HAVING

OF

NO'T

OTHERWISE DEMARCATED ACROSS DISTRICT CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUENCIES

SEVEN DISTRICTS

YAU TSIM

CONSTITUENCIES

PROPOSALS FOR

COUNCIL

SPECIFIC BOUNDARIES,

MONG, CENTRAL AND

PROVISIONALLY DEMARCATED WERE MADE IN

WESTERN, KWAI

TSUEN WAN, WONG TAI SIN, KOWLOON CITY, AND TURN MUN.

THERE WERE TWO MAIN OPPOSING ARGUMENTS PRESENTED:

TSING,

IT

DISTRICT

* EMPHASIS SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE POPULATION CRITERION, AND

RESPECT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY OR EVEN RELEVANT TO BOUNDARIES IN THE DEMARCATION OF MC CONSTITUENCIES.

ΤΟ REMAIN INTACT ΤΟ

IDENTITIES COMMUNITY

* DISTRICTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED DISTRICT INTEGRITY AND DEMARCATION OF MC CONSTITUENCIES.

IS ΤΟ STRIKE A FAIR CRITERIA OF ADHERING

PRESERVE IN THE

BALANCE

THE

OF

ΤΟ CLOSELY

AND EQUAL SUFFRAGE

"WHAT THE COMMISSION HAS DONE BETWEEN THE TWO CONFLICTING

SUBSTANTIAL ACHIEVE TO POPULATION QUOTA RESPECTING COMMUNITY IDENTITIES AND LOCAL TIES,'

Fr

MR JUSTICE WOO SAID.

CONSIDERED ALL THE REPRESENTATIONS THE CHAIRMAN SAID HAVING

FELT THAT ITS PRELIMINARY DECISION VERY CAREFULLY, THE COMMISSION NOT TO STRADDLE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES SHOULD BE CONFIRMED.

"THE

COMMISSION

DOES NOT ACCEPT

COMMUNITY IDENTITIES AND PRESERVATION OF LOCAL PART IN THE DEMARCATION OF MC CONSTITUENCIES,

THE HE SAID

COMMISSION

Fr

THAT THE REPRESENTATIONS

TIES SHOULD PLAY NO HE SAID.

THAT COMMUNITY GENERALLY BE BASED

ITS VIEW MAINTAINED SENSITIVITY ON THIS LARGER REGIONAL SCALE SHOULD ON DISTRICTS.

COMMISSION'S

ALSO PRESENT AT TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE WERE THE MEMBERS, PROFESSOR LEUNG CHI-KEUNG AND MR NORMAN LEUNG NAI-PANG.

COPIES OF THE REPORT WILL BE AVAILABLE

FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION

REGISTRATION AND SUB-OFFICES AND PUBLIC

DURING OFFICE HOURS FROM TOMORROW (THURSDAY) AT THE ELECTORAL OFFICE, DISTRICT OFFICES AND THEIR ENQUIRY SERVICE CENTRES,

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