SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1985
SIGN-UP FOR ELECTIONS CALL
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PEOPLE WHO HAVE SET THEIR HEARTS ON SERVING THE COMMUNITY SHOULD MAKE USE OF THE LAST FOUR DAYS TO GET THEMSELVES NOMINATED AS CANDIDATES FOR THE FORTHCOMING DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS.
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE +KNOW OUR DISTRICT BOARD+ EXHIBITION IN KWUN TONG THIS (SUNDAY) MORNING, THE DEPUTY REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR ALBERT LAM, REMINDED ALL CIVIC-MINDED PEOPLE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR THE DB CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS IS JANUARY 31 (THURSDAY).
+SINCE JANUARY 4, 409 PEOPLE, FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, HAVE BEEN NOMINATED, AND IT IS ENCOURAGING TO NOTE THAT SO MANY RESIDENTS ARE WILLING TO DEVOTE THEIR TIME AND EFFORT TO HELP IMPROVE LIFE IN THEIR COMMUNITY, + HE SAID.
TAKING KWUN TONG'S 30 CANDIDATES AS AN EXAMPLE, MR LAM SAID: +THE EXTENSIVE SCOPE OF THEIR PROFESSION AND EDUCATION BACKGROUND WILL MAKE THE NEXT DB A MORE REPRESENTATIVE AND DYNAMIC BOARD.+
THE NEXT STAGE OF THE RUN-UP TO THE ELECTIONS WOULD BE TO PROMPT VOTERS TO TURN UP ON THE POLLING DAY, MR LAM POINTED OUT.
+FROM NOW ON UNTIL MARCH 7, WE MUST TRY OUR BEST TO HELP VOTERS APPRECIATE THE MEANING OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION AND DB, AND TO IMPRESS UPON THEM THAT VOTING IS THEIR CIVIC RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY, SO THEY WILL TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO CAST THE IR VOTE, MR LAM SAID.
FORUMS WILL BE HELD FOR THE CONSTITUENCIES IN KWUN TONG TO HELP VOTERS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE POLITICAL PLATFORMS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE CANDIDATES, HE ADDED.
MR LAM ASSURED VOTERS THAT VOTING WAS A SIMPLE PROCEDURE
WHICH WOULD ONLY TAKE A FEW MINUTES.
TODAY'S EXHIBITION WAS ORGANISED BY THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES CENTRE AND SPONSORED BY THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT BOARD AS PART OF THE CURRENT KWUN TONG YOUTH FESTIVAL.
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