MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1978
SNT PREDICTS EUSY YEAR AHEAD FOR NT
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THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR. DAVID AKERS-JONES SAID TODAY THE BROADENING OF PROCESSES OF LOCAL CONSULTATION WILL IMPROVE THE LIVES AND BRING BENEFIT TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
ADDRESSING OVER 100 RURAL LEADERS AT THE LUNAR NEW YEAR TEA PARTY OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK, MR. AKERS-JONES FORECAST THAT THE YEAR AHEAD FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES WOULD BE AS BUSY AND FULL OF CHANGE AS THE LAST.
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+ I AM SURE, HE SAID, IF WE CO-OPERATE TO MEET THE CHALLENGES IT WILL BRING, WE WILL FIND SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS AND THAT THE NEW TERRITORIES WILL CONTINUE TC PROSPER.+
MR. AKERS-JONES ALSO POINTED OUT THAT LAST YEAR WAS A YEAR OF CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY FOR THE HEUNG YEE KUK, AND PRAISED THE KUK FOR DEVOTING MUCH TIME, THOUGHT AND EFFORT IN SENDING A DELEGATION TO LONDON.
HE BELIEVED THE EFFORT IN BRINGING CERTAIN MATTERS TO THE PERSONAL ATTENTION OF THE MINISTER OF STATE WAS WELL WORTHWHILE.
+NOT LEAST IT HELPED CREATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARTICULAR PROBLEMS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES IN THIS BUSY PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT, HE SAID.
VR. AKERS-JONES ALSO SPOKE OF THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE WORKING PARTY ON LAND ACQUISITION AND THE SUCCESSFUL FORMATION OF THE SEVEN DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARDS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
LATER IN THE EVENING, MR. AKERS-JONES HOSTED AN ANNUAL YAN YAT PARTY AT THE OCEANIA RESTAURANT IN NOMLOON FOR ABOUT 1,700 PEOPLE COMPRISING MEMBERS OF THE UMELO AND HEUNG YEE KUK. VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF THE SEVEN N.T. DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARDS, AND SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO WORK CLOSELY ALTH N.T. AFFAIRS.
THE PARTY WAS ORGANISED AS A MARK OF OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE WORK PERFORMED BY COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE PARTY WAS A TWO-HOUR ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME BY YOUNGSTERS FROM THE ARTS PROMOTIONS CRGANISATIONS OF YUEN LONG, TAI PO, TSUEN WAN AND TJEK KUN,
IT FEATURED CHINESE MUSICAL AND CHORAL PERFORMANCES, CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCES AND A NOTERN OPERA.
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