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MR MARTIN LEE:

Thank you.

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Do you know what the present proposals are?

MR MARTIN LEE: Well, I think it is up to the Hong Kong

Government, before putting the matter to the referendum, to

educate the people more than it is doing. Everybody in Hong

Kong practically has access to a television and a colour

so it shouldn't be that difficult.

many of the Hong Kong families read two, three or four

newspapers a day, although they read more racing pages than

any other page but it can be done because over 90% of our

people are literate.

television at that

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CLAIRMAN:

Ted Rowlands,

MR EDWARD ROWLANDS:

I've been sitting here listening to you

very carefully, Sir. I find myself facing a dilemma as an

outsider witness, outside and listening to the evidence.

First of all, would you not agree, would you agree anyway,

that there is a general consensus that the model that exists

in the Second Draft is not adequate?

MR MARTIN LEE: Entirely.

MR EDWARD ROWLANDS: But, would you also agree that there is

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