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MR. HU : Sir, can this Council be advised when the

Government will decide whether to take the matter further

or not?

CHIEF

SECRETARY : Sir, as I have said to Mr. Hilton

think the initial assessment

Cheong-Leen,

I

about a month or so.

will take

MR. DESMOND LEE : Sir,

Sir, what were the major reasons for

the abolition of summer time in the 1970s and do these

reasons still exist?

CHIEF

SECRETARY : Sir, on the previous occasion when

summer time was introduced in Hong Kong it was introduced

on a year round basis and was not therefore purely a

summer time situation, and many

and many of the problems of early

morning darkness caused a great deal of frustration in the

community. The present proposal is that summer time

should be introduced in the summer only and not throughout

the whole of the year round and

factors would be obviated.

therefore

some of these