8
MONDAY, JULY 14, 1980
THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOW PROPOSED IN THE GREEN PAPER ON DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION THAT, IN ADDITION TO THE RURAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND THE COMMUNITY LEADERS SELECTED OR CHOSEN BY GOVERNMENT. THE PEOPLE SHOULD THEMSELVES CHOOSE BY ELECTION A PROPORTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THESE BOARDS, MR AKERS-JONES SAID.
+THIS PROPOSAL REPRESENTS A FURTHER STEP IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN OUR NEW TOWNS IT IS A WAY TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE IR TOWNS.+
HE SAID THE TWO PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COMMUNITIES WERE TO ENSURE THAT PHYSICAL FACILITIES WERE BUILT TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXERCISE THE MINDS AND BODIES OF THE PEOPLE IN LEISURE AND RECREATION- AND TO CREATE A NETWORK OF ORGANISATIONS WHICH WOULD ENSURE, SO FAR AS WAS POSSIBLE, THAT NO-ONE NEED FEEL ALONE AND ISOLATED AND WHICH BY THEIR COLLECTIVE EFFORT WOULD ENSURE THE TOWNS WERE WELL- RUN AND ADMINISTERED, AND THAT THEIR RESIDENTS LIVED IN SECURITY AND HAPPINESS.
MR AKERS-JONES SAID MANY NEW TOWN PROJECTS, SUCH AS THE 1 000-SEAT AUDITORIUM AT SHEUNG SHUI AND THE $30 MILLION MULTI-PURPOSE SPORTS CENTRE AT TUEN MUN, WOULD NOT HAVE STARTED WITHOUT PRIVATE DONATIONS AMOUNTING TO OVER $70 MILLION.
+ I HOPE DONORS WILL UNDERSTAND, HE SAID, THAT FROM THEIR INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS GRADUALLY A DESIGN IS BEGINNING TO EMERGE WHICH WHEN COMPLETE WILL SEE A RING OF SWIMMING POOLS, AUDITORIA, SPORTS COMPLEXES, SQUASH COURTS AND OTHER FACILITIES AROUND THE NEW TERRITORIES TO COMPLEMENT THE MORE ESSENTIAL BUILDING OF SCHOOLS, POLICE STATIONS, CLINICS AND SO ON.+
IT WAS A GRAND DESIGN AND HE THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS BEGINNING TO SHARE IN THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENT THIS REPRESENTED AND THE REWARD IT REPRESENTED FOR THE HARD WORK OF OUR PEOPLE.
-