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more, then the Urban Councillors will fare even better.' Why do I put it this way? It is because if that happens, the Councillors will win the recognition of the citizens. Mr. Chairman, this is my hope. I hope very much that this year, there will be harmony among all Urban Councillors, and that they will strive to secure even better urban service facilities for the citizens.
After expressing my hope, I will sing some praises. We did a lot of good work in the past year, a piece of which was done by me and my partner Li Wah-ming (we are not members of the same party, but we are partners). Since our assumption of office some years ago, we have been striving unceasingly to enable students, the elderly, and the handicapped to gain access to the various cultural and recreational services of the Urban Council. In the past year, there was a lot of progress in our strife, as could be witnessed by all. I hope that we can continue to work in this direction, and I, together with centres for the handicapped, students, and the elderly and also voluntary organisations, will organise more functions so that the citizens of Hong Kong will be better cared for in those aspects by the Urban Council. In the previous meeting of the Recreation Select Committee, we brought up the subject of the establishment of a bowling centre in the Urban Council Fa Yuen Street Complex, Mong Kok. I mentioned last time that we had been neglecting this sport since CHE Kuk-hung won the championship in the Asian Olympics, and it was recently that we decided to construct a bowling centre equipped with merely eight alleys. I feel that this came too late. I hope we will actively promote bowling in our future plans. There is another sport that the Regional Council has promoted but that the Urban Council has yet to launch, that is, golf. I hope that the department will encourage more of such plans so that golf would no longer be a sport that only the wealthy can afford. I very much hope that the Urban Council will be in a position to provide facilities for ordinary and not very well-to-do citizens who like golf. These are my praises.
Lastly, I should like to make a response. Just now, Mr. Joseph CHAN Yuek-sut mentioned that there was a lot of political rubbish on every street in the entire area of Hong Kong and the New Territories. This is true. No other place has so many environmentally-unfriendly political banners on display in the streets even after elections. Some of them can still be seen in the streets after a few years. Is this a problem related to our sense of responsibility? We can see that this is an irresponsible act. Those who wish to hang banners do so wantonly. It is heartening to note that in the past few months, the Wan Chai District Board has successfully carried out a pioneer campaign, that is, it no longer allows those so-called influential people or parties to hang articles wantonly on the fences in the streets. As Mr. Joseph CHAN Yuck-sut has elaborated on this issue very clearly, I would not harp on it. I hope that we will not do things that are not permitted by the law only because we have the power to do so.
Mr. Chairman, I hope that you will lead us directly, that there will be harmony among us in the next few years, and that we can do more for the
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