HONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1974.
PUBLIC CO-OPERATION VITAL IN FIGHT AGAINST CRIME
SAYS GOVERNOR
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR HURRAY MACLEHOSE, TODAY REITERATED THAT CLOSE CO-CPERATION BETWEEN THE PULLIC AND THE POLICE VAS ESSENTIAL IN THE FICUT AGAINST CRIHE.
SIR MURRAY UNDERLINED THIS 1KPORTANT FACTOR AT A MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF CUOT HUNG [STATE'S NUTUAL AID COMMITTEES AND AREA COMMITTELS LURILG A VISIT TO MOLG TAI SIN TO SEE FOR HIMSELF COLDITIONS IN THE DISTRICT.
HE DESCRIDED THE TWO TYPES OF CCIITTEES AS IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS AND SAID THAT WITH'PUBLIC CC-GPERATION «CRINES WILL SOONER OR LATER DE MASTERED, AT PRESENT, THERE ARE 12 AC'S AND A POLICE LEIGHDOUNI:00) UNIT OPERATING I N THE ESTATE WHICH HOUSES ADOUT 49,000 PELLE.
ACCOMPANIED BY MR. TONY NEON, CITY DISTRICT COMMISSIONER (KCULCON) AND 13. JAN STRACHAN, CÍTY DISTRICT OFFICER (VONG TAI ŠIN), SIR KURRAY DEGAN HIS TOUR WITH A VISIT TO THE SITE FOR THE PROPOSED LION ROCK AERIAL ROPEWAY STATION NEAR THE SHATIN PASS ESTATE.
HE WAS DRIEFED BY MR. STRACHAN ON THE PROGRESS OF CLEARING THE SITE. TWO PLOTS OF FARMLAND IN THE AREA HAVE ALREADY DEEN CLEARED. STILL PENDING CLEARANCE ARE A TAOIST PLEASURE GARDEN, A MONASTERY AND A BUDDILIST NUMWENY.
THE GOVERNOR THEN PROCEEDED TO CLOCK 48, TSZ WAN SHAN ESTATE WHERE HE MET REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BLOCK'S BUTUAL AID COMMITTEE AS WELL AS THE TSZ WAN SHAN AREA COMMITTEE, SIR MURRAY EXPRESSED KEEN INTEREST IN THE OPERATION OF THE VATCIMEN PATROL SCHEME UNDERTAKEN BY THE MUTUAL AID COMMITTEE.
SIR MURRAY THEN INSPECTED THE PO KONG INTERCHANGE WHILE ON HIS WAY TO CHOI HUCG ESTATE. WORK ON STAGE OF THE INTERCHANGE, LINKING UP THE PO KONG VILLAGE ROAD WITH SHATIN PASS ROAD AND THE LUNG CHEUNG ROAD EXTENSION, VAS CUMPLETED LAST MONTIL. THE SECOND STAGE IS DUE TO START AT THE EID OF THE YEAR.
AFTER HIS MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF CHOI HUNG ESTATE'S MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES, SIR MURRAY CALLED AT THE LONG TAI SIN CITY DISTRICT OFFICE WHERE HE NOT MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE. HE SHOWED KEEN INTEREST IN THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.
SET UP IN MAY THIS YEAR, THE COMMITTEE AIMS AT CO-ORDINATING GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS EFFORTS IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT DISTRICT LEVEL AND TO POOL DISTRICT SERVICES TOGETHER WHEREVER POSSICLE.
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