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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1985
MR. FORSGATE REMARKED THAT TO WHAT EXTENT THE FINANCIAL TALKS WILL RESULT IN ALTERATION TO THE MEMORANDUM OF ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT WHICH GOVERNS THE COUNCIL'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, REMAINS TO BE SEEN.
BUT HE EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT THE THREE-MAN TEAM WILL USE EVERY VIABLE ARGUMENT TO GET A PRACTICAL AND WORKABLE ARRANGEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT.
UC BIDS FAREWELL TO TWO COUNCILLORS
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THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG HAVE GREATLY BENEFITTED FROM THE LONG YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE OF URBAN COUNCILLORS MR KENNETH LO AND MR SHUM CHOI-SANG, SAID THE ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL, MR H.M.G. FORSGATE, TODAY,
ON BEHALF OF ALL URBAN COUNCILLORS, MR FORSGATE OFFICIALLY BADE FAREWELL AND PAID TRIBUTE TO MR LO AND MR SHUM, WHO WILL STEP DOWN FROM THE COUNCIL BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.
+KENNETH LO IN HIS 19 YEARS ON THE COUNCIL HAS GIVEN UNSTINTINGLY OF HIS TIME IN MANY ROLES AND ON MANY SELECT COMMITTEES AND SUB-COMMITTEES, SAID MR FORSGATE.
HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH MR LO IS STEPPING DOWN FROM THE COUNCIL, HE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN SINCE THE MANY SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES TO BE FOUND ON EITHER SIDE OF THE HARBOUR WILL SERVE AS A CONSTANT REMINDER OF THE DRIVING FORCE HE DISPLAYED IN PUSHING THROUGH WITH THESE PROJECTS THAT HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO IMPROVE THE LIFESTYLE, NOT ONLY OF OUR YOUNG, BUT OF OUR OLDER CITIZENS, TOO. +
TURNING TO MR SHUM, MR FORSGATE COMMENDED HIM FOR HAVING DEVOTED 11 YEARS OF SERVICE TO TACKLING THE HAWKER PROBLEM.
+MR SHUM THREW HIMSELF INTO THE TRIALS AND TURMOIL OF THE HAWKER SITUATION, AND STANDING AS MILESTONES TO HIS DEDICATED SERVICE ARE THE MANY NEW MARKETS TO BE FOUND IN OUR URBAN AREA, SOME OF THEM IN THE MOST MODERN MULTI-PURPOSE BUILDINGS, HE SAID.
HE DESCRIBED MR SHUM AS A VERY COMMUNITY-CONSCIOUS PERSON WHO HAS FOR MANY YEARS FOUND PRACTICAL WAYS IN WHICH TO DEMONSTRATE HIS GENUINE CIVIC MINDEDNESS.
+ I AM SURE HE WILL LONG CONTINUE TO GIVE UNSPARINGLY OF HIS TIME IN THOSE MANY OTHER WORTHY FIELDS IN WHICH HE STILL SERVES, MR FORSGATE ADDED.
MR BROOK BERNACCHI WHO ALSO SPOKE ON THE OCCASION, WELCOMED THE REAPPOINTMENTS OF MR FORSGATE, MR STEPHEN LAU AND MR HOWARD YOUNG TO THE COUNCIL FOR ANOTHER THREE YEARS.
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