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moment, I would say that only the racial composition was about right - 3 to 1 in favor of Chinese. The sexual balance is probably too heavily weighted against women, though we should not expect UMELCO to do more than represent the extent to which women play a leading role - Hong Kong society generally: until 50% of the portions of influence Hong Kong we occupied by women we should not expect then to attain parity in

UMELCO.

2. On the "social" composition, I suggest we accept fr

i Thompson's thee equal groups as a starting point for discussion, ent should remain entirely open to argument both about the relative weight to be given to each group and to the possibility of including other categories (e.g. civic leaders, housewives, small businessmen).

W.2. Cantill

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