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MRS. CHOW: Sir, I thank you

for your tolerance.

I was

hoping the points I wish to make would be covered by the ther

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fellow members in the ad hoc group, put

ut since they want were not, I

appreciate this opportunity to make them now.

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This Bill aims to remove a restriction in my view

which exists unjustly in the present order of things and

we

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deserves our support.

Council

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For why should be allowed Regional

and Members of this Council to stand as

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Members and be candidates elected the district boards while at the

same time, that right is denied of Urban Councillors.

Present arrangements are also unfair in that there is an

the automatic right for Urban Councillors to sit on district

of the

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boards. From the perspective the Urban Councillors, they

are being forced to occupy two seats when they are

levelled appointed or elected to one. The critisism level against

the Bill has been mainly based on an objection to the

policy intention

the

membership of Urban

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behind its that the ex official

Councils F district boards should

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that cap

cease when their present term expires in 1989. objection could be one on substance or timing. [Comparing

the workings of the two municipal councils, there is little

doubt that the links in the Regional Council works better

than those in the Urban Council. It is fair to say there

is widespread recentment in the district boards towards the

present link in the form of the ex official membership

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enjoyed by the Urban Councillors.

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То move the links

between the

doverni two levels of the local

nment

and lodge

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