FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1985
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A NUMBER OF PROJECTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED SINCE COMMUNAL DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN MUI WO STARTED ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, INCLUDING THE MUI WO FERRY CONCOURSE, A BUS TERMINAL, A SECONDARY SCHOOL, A WATER-FRONT LANDSCAPED PROMENADE, CARPARKS AND LAND FOR PRIVATE COMMERCIAL-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
RECLAMATION WORK WAS PROGRESSING SMOOTHLY AND CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR THE MUI WO RURAL PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE WOULD START IN THE MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR AND BE COMPLETED IN 1988.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND A SPORTS COMPLEX.
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+HEUNG YEE KUK'S VIEWS VALUED ****
THE HEUNG YEE KUK HAS A STANDING IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE GOVERNMENT VALUES THE VIEWS THAT THEY PUT FORWARD, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY),
+THE KUK WILL BE WELL REPRESENTED ON THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS OF THE KUK DO PLAY A PART IN MANY OTHER THINGS, QUITE APART FROM THE HEUNG YEE KUK, HE SAID.
THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE A SEAT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DID NOT MEAN THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT TAKE A VERY GREAT ACCOUNT OF THE VIEWS WHICH THEY EXPRESS ON MANY MATTERS.
*WE DO VERY MUCH VALUE THEIR VIEWS, AND THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US, SIR EDWARD SAID.
SIR EDWARD WAS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW TERRITORIES HEUNG YEE KUK SOUTHERN DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL IN MUI WO, LANTAU ISLAND.
ASKED WHETHER THE KUK COULD JOIN THE INDIRECT ELECTIONS TO THE LEGSILATIVE COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR, THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, HAD RECENTLY TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THAT THERE HAD TO BE A LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IN THE 1985 ELECTIONS.
+ BUT THERE WILL BE A REVIEW ON QUITE A NUMBER OF MATTERS IN 1987, AND THIS ISSUE CAN THEN BE BROUGHT UP AGAIN, HE SAID.
+MEMBERS OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK WHO ARE HERE THIS AFTERNOON HAVE. TOLD ME OF THEIR FEELINGS ABOUT THE SUBJECT - YOU HAVE HEARD THEM SPEAK ABOUT IT AND THEY HAVE TOLD ME OF THEIR FEELINGS ABOUT IT AND WE HAVE NOTED THOSE FEELINGS, HE SAID.
ASKED WHETHER THERE WAS ANY CHANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT REVISING THIS DECISION BEFORE 1987, SIR EDWARD SAID, +NOT BEFORE '87. WE ARE NOW VERY BUSY MAKING THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1985 ELECTIONS, AND PREPARING THE LEGISLATION.
+SO IT WON'T BE POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE DECISION THIS YEAR, BUT AS I HAVE SAID, WE HAVE NOTED WHAT THEY HAVE SAID, HE ADDED.
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