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30.

Option (i) would leave the problems described in

paragraph 25 above largely unresolved. It is difficult to

see how some of the unsatisfactory aspects arising from the

constiuencies have been formed can be removed

way some

without the creation of additional constituencies.

31.

Option (ii) (a) would allow for some improvement to

the present system, to overcome the criticisms which have

been voiced, without the need to increase, greatly, the

number of electoral college seats. Option (ii)(b) would

provide still more scope for rationalisation of the present

system. One possibility would be for each District Board to

become a constituency and elect its Own member to the

Legislative Council, or for the chairman of each District

Board to automatically be given a seat on the Council.

Either method would ensure, in principle,

in principle, that each district

in the territory has equal representation on the Council,

and would eliminate the problem of inter-District Board

rivalries. To implement this option it would be necessary to

allocate an additional nine seats in the Legislative Council

to electoral college representatives.

The drawback of this

one

suggestion is that a large district such as Kwun Tong, with

a population of 660,000 people, would have

representative in the Council, the same as a small district

such as Sai Kung with a population of only 35,000 people.

ΤΟ achieve a more proportional representation with, for

example, each

constituency

electoral college member representing a

of some

250,000 people, might require the

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