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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1981
+PROBLEMS OF DISTURBANCE AND UPHEAVAL, OF NOISE, POLLUTION AND A TOTALLY CHANGED ENVIRONMENT. +
THE KUK HAD PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE DURING THIS PERIOD GIVING TIMELY REMINDERS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ITS OBLIGATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES AND OF THE NEED TO IMPROVE SERVICES AND FACILITIES, MR AKERS-JONES SAID.
GOVERNMENT, OF COURSE, HAD NOT ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO RESPOND AS QUICKLY AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED, BUT THE FACT THAT THERE EXISTED A HEUNG YEE KUK TO MAKE REPRESENTATIONS WAS IN ITSELF IMPORTANT AND ENSURED THAT WE DID NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE NEED FOR IMPROVED FACILITIES.
+NOW WE ARE WELCOMING ANOTHER TIDAL WAVE OF PEOPLE TO THE NEW TERRITORIES, WHOSE POPULATION WILL INCREASE BY 1.6 MILLION IN THE YEARS 1981-91.
+AND, AS IN THE PAST, SO IT HAS BECOME NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THESE NEW ARRIVALS WITH A VOICE AND TO CREATE A NEW ORGANISATION TO DEAL WITH THE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS CREATED BY URBANISATION.+
THE DISTRICT BOARDS WERE A MEETING PLACE BETWEEN THE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND WISDOM OF THE RURAL COMMITTEES AND THE KUK AND THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THESE NEW ARRIVALS.
WE HAD TO BUILD COMMUNITIES OUT OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO WILL CARE, JUST AS YOU CARE, FOR THE PLACE THEY LIVE IN, WHO WILL JOIN TOGETHER TO CREATE THEIR OWN ACTIVITIES FOR LEISURE AND PLEASURE, WHO WILL SHOW CONCERN FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE, THE OLD, THE SICK AND THE DISABLED, AND WHO WILL JOIN TOGETHER TO COMBAT THE EVILS OF MODERN SOCIETY OF CRIME, DRUGS AND POLLUTION.
+ IN THE YEARS THAT LIE AHEAD, INEVITABLY THERE WILL BE CHANGES, SUT THE KUK HAS SHOWN BY ITS HISTORY OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS THAT IT IS ABLE TO ADAPT ITSELF TO THE NEEDS OF THE HOUR, AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT THE VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES, THE MEMBERS OF RURAL COMMITTEES AND THE KUK WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE,+ MR AKERS-JONES CONCLUDED.
TEMPORARY TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS IN TUEN MUN
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A NUMBER OF TEMPORARY TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE INTRODUCED IN TUEN MUN ON THURSDAY (MAY 7) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPENING CEREMONY FOR TUEN MUN RURAL COMMITTEE BUILDING, A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY),
THE TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS, WHICH WILL LAST FROM 11.30 AM UNTIL 6.30 PM, INCLUDE THE CLOSURE OF THE SECTION OF SAN TSING ROAD BETWEEN HO PONG STREET AND TUEN MUN ROAD.
THE SECTION OF SAN TSING ROAD BETWEEN THE NEW TUEN MUN ROAD COMMITTEE BUILDING TO THE SQUARE AREA BESIDE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANK WILL ALSO BE TEMPORARILY CLOSED.
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