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Mr Chairman,
SUPPLEMENT
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
SIR EDWARD YOUDE, GOMG, MBE AT THE
MEETING OF URBAN COUNCIL ON 18 APRIL 1983
It is a great pleasure for me to be present today at this
Special Meeting of the Urban Council. It marks this 100th Anniversary
of the establishment of the Council's predecessor body, the Sanitary
Board in 1883. This year is also the 10th Anniversary of the reconstitution
of the Council in 1973: and to add to the importance of the occasion we
mark also the successful completion of the new process under which members
of the Council have for the first time been elected on a constituency
basis. It gives me the opportunity too to congratulate you, Mr Chairman,
on your election for a further period of office. I might add that if
our predecessors in the '30s had got round to things two years earlier
and acted in 1933 instead of 1935 we could have completed the patter
and celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Urban Council itself in our
celebrations today.
In the process of transition over the 100 years of its existence
from a three man Sanitary Board, all officials of the Government, to
this enlarged assembly of 30 members, all Unofficials, the Council has
seen many changes in its composition functions and method of selection.
That is a reflection of the need for public bodies to respond to the
changes in the society which they serve. The Sanitary Board grew out
of a requirement to improve the environment in which the population of
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