TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1986
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LADY YOUDE VISITS CONSUMER COUNCIL
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LADY YOUDE SHOWED A LOT OF INTEREST AND WAS IMPRESSED BY THE WORK OF THE CONSUMER COUNCIL WHEN SHE VISITED THE COUNCIL'S OFFICE IN WAN CHAI THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON.
GREETED ON ARRIVAL BY THE COUNCIL'S CHAIRMAN, MRS SELINA CHOW, AND THE CHIEF-EXECUTIVE, MRS PAMELA CHAN, SHE FIRST TOURED THE CONSUMER ADVICE COUNTER WHERE UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION OF VARIOUS CONSUMER GOODS ARE AVAILABLE.
THE CENTRE RECEIVED 15 884 ENQUIRIES AND 4 531 COMPLAINTS LAST YEAR. WHILE THE NUMBER OF ENQUIRIES INCREASED BY 48 PER CENT OVER 1984, COMPLAINTS DECLINED BY 11 PER CENT. AT PRESENT, A TOTAL OF 14 SUCH CENTRES ARE RUN BY THE COUNCIL THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
LADY YOUDE THEN SAW A DISPLAY OF PRODUCTS IDENTIFIED AS UNSAFE BY THE COUNCIL. THESE WERE THE RESULT OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND TESTS OF PRODUCTS.
FOLLOWING A TOUR OF THE LIBRARY, SHE ALSO MET COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR A CHAT BEFORE LEAVING.
FANLING WAI IS FIRST VILLAGE ON VISIT PROGRAMME *****
NORTH DISTRICT OFFICER, MR MATTHEW CHEUNG, HAS BEGUN A SERIES OF VISITS TO VILLAGES IN THE DISTRICT TO GAIN FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RURAL LIFE AND TO SEE VARIOUS DEVELOPMENTS.
MR CHEUNG, WHO TOOK UP THE POST AS DISTRICT OFFICER IN APRIL, TODAY VISITED FANLING WAT WHICH IS THE LARGEST VILLAGE IN THE AREA WITH A POPULATION OF ABOUT 2 800 PEOPLE,
+THE PROGRAMME OF VISITS IS AIMED AT FOSTERING CLOSER TIES BETWEEN THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE MANY RURAL COMMITTEES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT NORTH DISTRICT,+ A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DISTRICT OFFICE SAID,
+AT PRESENT, THERE ARE SOME 110 VILLAGES IN THE DISTRICT, WHICH - IS MADE UP OF FOUR GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS; FANLING, SHEUNG SHUI, SHA TAU KOK AND TA KWU LING,+ HE ADDED.
+ THE TOTAL RURAL POPULATION IN THE DISTRICT IS AROUND 65 000 AND THE FOUR SUB-DISTRICTS COME UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AREA COMMITTEES, HE SAID.
/+ALTHOUGH THE