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+IN SHORT, A HAPPY LIFE REQUIRES THAT A GENUINELY VIABLE COMMUNITY IS BUILT THAT AS MANY RESIDENTS AS POSSIBLE ARE INVOLVED IN IT THAT IT FULFILS ALL THE NEEDS OF THESE RESIDENTS- AND THAT A COMMUNITY SPIRIT IS DEVELOPED DEEPER AND MORE WIDESPREAD THAN THE PUBLIC SPIRIT OF MERE INDIVIDUALS, DR HASE SAID.
HOW DID WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE THIS? HE ASKED.
+ABOVE ALL, OUR AIM MUST BE TO ASSIST AND ENCOURAGE GROUPS OF RESIDENTS TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO POSITIVE COMMUNITY GROUPS.
+NO COMMUNITY CAN BE BUILT FROM OUTSIDE- IT MUST GROW FROM WITHIN.
+ALL OUTSIDE AGENCIES CAN DO, AND ESPECIALLY GOVERNMENT, IS TO ASSIST BY ENCOURAGING AND BRINGING TOGETHER LIKE MINDED CITIZENS, TO HELP, IN OTHER WORDS, TO ESTABLISH THE SORT OF ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH COMMUNITY SPIRIT CAN GROW UP, HE SAID.
IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER WHAT THE GROUP OF CITIZENS WISHED TO DO, HE ADDED.
ANYTHING (OTHER, OF COURSE, THAN THE OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL OR ANTI-SOCIAL) WHICH A GROUP OF CITIZENS WISHED TO DO WOULD HELP TO DEVELOP A COMMUNITY: THE VERY FACT THAT CITIZENS WERE WORKING SUCCESSFULLY TOGETHER AND WERE SEEN TO BE WORKING TOGETHER WOULD LEAD OTHER GROUPS TO DO THE SAME.
+NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS, AND ANY TRULY SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY GROUP WILL LEAD VERY QUICKLY TO AN EVER WIDENING AND DEEPENING CIRCLE OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT,+ DR HASE SAID.
+OBVIOUSLY, THE THING THAT HAS TO BE DONE AS SOON AS A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF RESIDENTS' GROUPS IS FORMED IS TO ESTABLISH A SUITABLE STRUCTURE.
+CLEARLY, ANY INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS' GROUP IS GOING TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IF IT IS IN CONTACT WITH OTHER GROUPS OF A SIMILAR NATURE, SO THAT BY JOINT ACTION WORK CAN BE DONE GREATER THAN ANY INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATION COULD MANAGE ON ITS OWN, AND SO THAT DUPLICATION OF WORK CAN BE AVOIDED.
+ IN THIS FIELD GOVERNMENT HAS, OF COURSE, A CLEAR ROLE TO PLAY.
+THE MOST IMPORTANT ORGAN WITHIN A NEW TERRITORIES NEW TOWN FOR CO-ORDINATING THE WORK OF LOCAL RESIDENTS GROUPS IS THE DISTRICT
BOARD.
+THE DISTRICT BOARD WHICH WILL BE PARTLY ELECTED FROM 1982 ONWARDS IS DESIGNED TO REPRESENT ALL THE RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT AND TO COORDINATE THE WORK OF ALL LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS.+
DR HASE SAID IT WAS HOPED THAT BOARDS WOULD BECOME THE VERY HEART OF WORK IN THIS FIELD.
+NONETHELESS, IT IS CLEAR THAT A DISTRICT AS LARGE AS SHA TIN IS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THE JOB OF COORDINATION EFFECTIVELY WITHOUT SOME SUB-STRUCTURE OF SUB-ORDINATE AGENCIES.
/+WE NESD