MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1983
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IN 1968, HE RECALLED, THE DISTRICT OFFICER SYSTEM OF THE RURAL AREAS WAS INTRODUCED TO THE URBAN DISTRICTS, MAKING THE GOVERNMENT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE MAN IN THE STREET AND MOBILISING THE PUBLIC TO CLEAN HONG KONG, FIGHT CRIME, CORRUPTION AND DRUGS.
+AND THIS IN TURN BEGAN TO REBUILD THE COMMUNITY AND TO USE OLD VIRTUES TO DEVELOP MORE COHERENT AND INTEGRATED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ITS VARIOUS DISPARATE ELEMENTS, HE ADDED.
NOW ALL DISTRICT OFFICERS IN BOTH RURAL AND URBAN AREAS WERE COMBINED IN ONE DEPARTMENT AND WERE ABLE TO DEVELOP A COMMON APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTED THE DAILY LIVES, HE SAID.
+THUS THE COMMUNITY WHICH DISINTEGRATED 40 YEARS AGO HAS NOW BEEN RE-INTEGRATED IN A DIFFERENT FORM.
→A FORM WHICH IS ADAPTED TO HIGH-RISE AND HIGH-DENSITY LIVING! A FORM WHICH RECOGNISES THE NEED FOR MUTUAL ASSISTANCE, UNITED EFFORT AND RESPECT FOR THE CONSENSUS IN FACING AND RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW, HE SAID.
PEOPLE URGED TO GO OUT AND VOTE
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UNOFFICIAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR, MR WONG LAM, TODAY (MONDAY) APPEALED TO ALL REGISTERED VOTERS TO EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC RIGHT AND TO VOTE IN TOMORROW'S URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS.
IN A TELEVISED APPEAL THROUGH RTHK'S +ACCESS+ PROGRAMME THIS EVENING, MR WONG NOTED THAT ABOUT 568 000 PERSONS, INCLUDING THOSE REGISTERED FOR THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS LAST SEPTEMBER, WERE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE NEW-STYLE CONSTITUENCY-BASED ELECTIONS.
THE MORE VOTERS THERE WERE, THE MORE REPRESENTATIVE THE ELECTED COUNCILLORS WOULD BE, HE SAID.
+ IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE WORK OF THE URBAN COUNCIL, YOU WILL CERTAINLY SUPPORT THE ELECTIONS.
+AND IF YOU THINK THERE IS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL, YOU MUST VOTE AND CHOOSE THE RIGHT PERSON TO UNDERTAKE THIS IMPORTANT TASK, HE SAID.
MR WONG SAID THE COUNCIL'S WORK IS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE DAILY LIFE OF EVERYONE IN HONG KONG. IT PROVIDES A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES RANGING FROM REFUSE COLLECTION, PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND SPORT FACILITIES, TO THE CONTROL OF HAWKERS AND FOOD HYGIENE.
ALL REGISTERED VOTERS CAN GO TO THEIR POLLING STATIONS BETWEEN 7 AM AND 11 PM TOMORROW TO CAST THEIR VOTES. THERE ARE ALTOGETHER 134 POLLING STATIONS.
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