THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1981
FAREWELL DINNER FOR TSUEN WAN PROJECT MANAGER
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TSUEN WAN COMMUNITY LEADERS TODAY (THURSDAY) HELD A FAREWELL DINNER FOR THE DISTRICT'S PROJECT MANAGER, MR EDDY SHORT,
MR SHORT, WHO HAS HELD THE POST SINCE THE TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WAS FIRST SET UP IN 1973, WAS RECENTLY PROMOTED ACTING DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT.
SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER, MR CHAN PO FONG, THANKED MR SHORT FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF TSUEN WAN FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
HE SAID THE BUILDING OF TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL, AN INDOOR SPORTS HALL IN KWAI CHUNG, TSUEN WAN BY-PASS, THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY EXTENSION AND TSUEN WAN BAY RECLAMATION HAD ALL TAKEN PLACE WHILE MR SHORT HAD BEEN PROJECT MANAGER.
+WE BELIEVE THE PROJECT MANAGER'S OFFICE HAS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY UNDER THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME, MR CHAN SA ID.
+ IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE IR WORK THAT COMMUNITY PROJECTS PROPOSED BY DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS CAN BECOME A REALITY.
+MR SHORT HAS ALWAYS SHOWN GREAT INTEREST IN HELPING THE BOARD AND ITS VARIOUS PROJECTS, HE SAID.
TSUEN WAN TOWN MANAGER, DR JAMES HAYES, DESCRIBED MR SHORT AS A +VERY SENSIBLE AND PRACTICAL PERSON WHO TAKES A HUMAN APPROACH TO PROBLEMS+.
+DISTRICT WORK REQUIRES A LOYALTY TO THE DISTRICT. THIS CAN ONLY DERIVE FROM TAKING A REAL INTEREST IN THE PLACE, WORKING WITH LOCAL PEOPLE, AND KNOWING THE DISTRICT AND ITS NEEDS,+ HE SAID.
+BUT DISTRICT NEEDS HAVE TO BE BALANCED AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AND PRIORITIES.
+THE COMPLEXITIES SURROUNDING THIS KIND OF WORK CLEARLY REQUIRE A SPECIAL TYPE OF PERSON TO DO IT EFFECTIVELY. EDDIE SHORT
IS THAT SORT OF MAN,+ DR HAYES SAID.
+WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE IN HAVING HIM HERE FOR SO LONG, BUT HE NOW HAS TO MOVE ON.+
ALSO PRESENT AT THE DINNER WERE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW TERRITOR IES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, MR BERNARD NEWMAN, THE NEW PROJECT MANAGER, MR C.N. FONG, AND OFFICIALS FROM VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
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