TNAG-1286-FCO40-16372-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong.-Part-2-of-2-1984 — Page 108

2.

This is a very large number for an official

publication and I am advised that local shortages

(and they were short lived) have been overcome.

Certainly, any number can be and will be -

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made available on demand at all the usual contact

points. The Government Information Services,

Radio Television Hong Kong and the City and New

Territories have been tasked to ensure that the

proposals are explained to as wide an audience as

possible including, I can assure Mr. WONG Lam, Mutual

Aid Committees and Area Committees. At the same

time, the Government's machinery has been tasked to

feed back all comments received and heard for

central collation and analysis.

The Objective of the Green Paper

3. I welcome in particular Members' support for

the general objective of the Green Paper which is, in

fact, enshrined in its title, namely, the further

development of representative government in Hong Kong.

Members have also endorsed, it seems to me, the underlying

approach adopted, that is to say, to build progressively

on existing institutions and well-established practices.

Certainly, Members seemed to agree that such development

requires a system of government which is firmly rooted

in our community, on which the views of the community

are fully represented, and which is more directly

/accountable...