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IN URBAN AREA, WHEREBY DISTRICT OFFICERS ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF COMMITTEES WITHIN THEIR DISTRICTS TO ADVISE ON PARTICULAR
SUBJECTS. OBJECT WAS TO PROVIDE LINK BETWEEN POPULATION OF EACH
URBAN DISTRICT AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. BUT BY EARLY 1970S
PRESSURES OF INCREASE IN POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN
AREAS AND OF NEW TOWNS IN NEW TERRITORIES CREATED NEED FOR
EXISTING INSTITUTIONS TO ADAPT FURTHER.
3.
IN 1973 URBAN COUNCIL (URBCO) RECONSTITUTED WITH
FINANCIAL AUTONOMY FROM CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. OFFICIAL MEMBERS WITHDRAWN. UNOFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP INCREASED TO 24, HALF ELECTED
AND HALF APPOINTED. RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVISION OF WIDE RANGE OF
SERVICES TO PUBLIC IN URBAN AREA OF HONG KONG ISLAND AND
KOWLOON.
4.
DURING 1970S NETWORK OF CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEES, WHICH GREW FROM EARLIER CITY DISTRICT OFFICERS' COMMITTEES, ESTABLISHED AS FURTHER LINKS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY AT CENTRAL AND
DISTRICT LEVEL. IN URBAN AREAS CITY DISTRICT OFFICERS FORMED
CITY DISTRICT COMMITTEES. THESE COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES OF
LOCAL AREA COMMITTEES WHO IN TURN COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES OF
MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES (BASED ON INDIVIDUAL BUIDINGS). THEIR TASK WAS TO ADVISE ON LOCAL AFFAIRS AND PROVISION OF LOCAL SERVICES. MEANWHILE, IN VIEW OF GROWTH OF NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARDS ESTABLISHED FROM 1977 IN ORDER TO
REPRESENT VIEWS BOTH OF NEW AND OF ESTABLISHED COMMUNITIES COMPRISED LOCAL OFFICIALS, RURAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND APPOINTED
UNOFFICIALS.
5.
BASED UPON THESE DEVELOPMENTS IN JUNE 1980 THE HONG KONG
GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED A GREEN PAPER ENTITLED A PATTERN OF
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG'. THE PROPOSALS IN THE PAPER, PUBLISHED FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION, WERE AIMED AT BETTER GOVERNMENT COORDINATION OF SERVICES AND RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS AT DISTRICT LEVEL, AND AT A GREATER PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROCESS BY RESIDENTS OF EACH DISTRICT. THE GREEN PAPER ALSO NOTED THAT 'THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS, THE CENTRAL ORGANS OF GOVERNMENT, HAVE EVOLVED, AND WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE AS CIRCUMSTANCES REQUIRE, WITHIN THE IMPERATIVES OF STABILITY AND
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