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I

resulted in there being

no direct

given answer

to the

most

important

issue

of

whether

direct elections should

or should

not be introduced in 1988.

This is

the most

fundamental

flaw

and

have would

been

sufficient

in

itself to

vitiate

the

reliability of the two surveys in

relation to this particular

issue.

Secondly, as to the phraseology of the questions

in

Section F3, all the experts that I

those who

have

a expressed

media, are agreed

the that

questions

have consulted as well as

in view

public through the mass

from the Green copied

Paper

were summary

much too

complicated

and technical to be

Hong

understood by the ordinary citizens of

professional survey company should have

that particular way.

Kong and that no

framed the questions in

was that it

A GB McNair's answer to the Omelco Panel

had decided to adhere straightly to the wording of the options

contained in the summary of the Green Paper as

well as to the

But this was not true

order in which the options were set out.

issues raised in the Green Paper. in relation to some other

For

Section

A 3

in example:

which dealt with the Role of the

District Board, the relevant question contained

some additional

words which

were a clear improvement.

Likewise, in Section Il

which dealt with the sequence and timing

of elections for the

District

Boards,

useful

had words

also

been

added

to

the