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material

times

both

A GB

McNair

and

the

Survey

Office knew

perfectly well

that

the

options

in the

Questionnaire

were

exactly the same as those contained in

the

Green Paper, which

was

a public

document.

Further,

if

the contents

of the

to the

as public

requested,

· Questionnaire had been disclosed

the Questionnaire would certainly have been improved.

public could have sent in their submissions by dealing

specific issues raised in the Questionnaire.

And the

with the

Sir, in light of the many faults

and failures in the

two

public opinion

surveys,

the

people

of

Hong

Kong

are

entitled

to a sk:

"What has gone wrong?"

But

So far there is

no

the Office,

clear answer because the Survey

Administation and

A GB McNair all appear to be trying to pass the buck to

another. Certainly, no

explanation satisfactory

on e

has been

offered to the Omelco Panel by these parties despite the the

fact that several meetings had

been

convened.

It

seems

that

the surveys conducted by AGB McNair were

the many problems of

generated

by

the Green

Administration and

that

Paper

the options

which

was

drafted by

the

contained

in the Green

Paper

were never

intended to

be used

as

a

model

for

a

And

the

questionnaire.

Survey Office, which was set up by the

Governor, for some inexplicable

reasons had allowed the surveys

to

go

ahead well

knowing

that

AGB McNair had, also for

some

reasons,

decided

inexplicable

wordings of the options in the Summary of the Green Paper.

to adhere

strictly

to

the

A