TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1985
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*WE SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT CHANGE CAN BE MANAGED IF WE ARE DETERMINED TO GET ON TOP OF IT, MR LEUNG SAID.
TO PREPARE FOR CHANGES WHICH WERE A FACT OF LIFE AND WERE AS INEVITABLE AS DEATH, MR LEUNG SAID EDUCATION WAS THE KEY TO THE WHOLE MATTER.
+EDUCATION BROADENS ONE'S OWN HORIZON, DEEPENS ONE'S KNOWLEDGE, PREPARES ONE INTELLECTUALLY, PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY FOR MATURITY, HE SAID.
+ IT IS ONLY WITH MATURITY THAT CHANGES CAN BE FACED AND DEALT WITH ADEQUATELY AND CONF IDENTLY.
+MATURITY MEANS THE GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF ONE'S OWN PERSON OVER TIME, AND EDUCATION MUST AIM AT CULTIVATING THE WHOLE PERSONAL ITY, + MR LEUNG ADDED.
GAME CENTRE APPEAL REJECTED ***
THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL TODAY (TUESDAY) REJECTED AN APPEAL BY THE LICENSEE OF AN AMUSEMENT GAME CENTRE WHOSE LICENCE RENEWAL WAS REFUSED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING (CTEL).
THE APPELLENT, MR KAN MING-CHAU, WHO OPERATED AN AMUSEMENT GAME CENTRE IN TAI PO ROAD, SHAM SHUI PO, WAS TOLD ON JULY 25 THAT HIS LICENCE EXPIRING ON AUGUST 26 WOULD NOT BE RENEWED.
THE COMMISSIONER'S DECISION WAS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF OFFENCES COMMITTED BY THE LICENSEE IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE LICENCE CONDITION: MR KAN HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF 14 OFFENCES
INVOLVING INSTALLATION OF UNAPPROVED MACHINES BETWEEN NOVEMBER 8, 1984 AND MARCH 5, 1985.
SUBSEQUENTLY, MR KAN MADE A REPRESENTATION UNDER THE MISCELLANEOUS LICENCES REGULATIONS AND WAS AGAIN NOTIFIED BY CTEL OF THE SAME DECISION. HE LODGED AN APPEAL AGAINST THE COMMISSIONER'S DECISION ON AUGUST 20, 1985.
ALTHOUGH THE LICENSEE MAINTAINED IN HIS APPEAL THAT NO FURTHER OFFENCE OF ANY OTHER NATURE WAS COMMITTED, RECORDS OF COURT CONVICTIONS SHOWED THAT HE WAS FURTHER FINED BETWEEN $200 AND $500 BETWEEN MARCH 26 AND MAY 15, 1985 FOR THE SAME OFFENCE SEVEN TIMES.
IN REJECTING THE APPEAL, THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL NOTED THE POSSIBLE EFFECT OF UNDESIRABLE GAMES ON PLAYERS HAD LONG BEEN, AND STILL WAS, AN AREA OF PUBLIC CONCERN. FUTHERMORE, IF THE INSTALLATION OF UNAPPROVED MACHINES WERE TAKEN LIGHTLY BY THE LICENSING AUTHORITY, THIS WOULD GIVE THE OPERATOR AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER THOSE WHO COMPLIED WITH THIS CONDITION.
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