FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1987
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RESIDENTS URGED TO PLAY PART IN COMMUNITY
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TAI PO RESIDENTS WERE TODAY (FRIDAY) URGED TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND TO PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMMES PROMOTING CIVIC EDUCATION.
SPEAKING AT THE CLOSING OF THE DISTRICT'S CIVIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, DISTRICT OFFICER MR JOHN BURRETT SAID VIEWS ON DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION EXPRESSED BY RESIDENTS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN DISTRICT AFFAIRS HAD AN IMPORTANT BEARING ON THE POLITICAL REVIEW BEING CARRIED OUT THIS YEAR.
TURNING TO THE DISTRICT CAMPAIGN, MR BURRETT PRAISED THE TAI PO DISTRICT CIVIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR ITS EFFORTS IN PROMOTING CIVIC EDUCATION AND ENHANCING CIVIC-MINDEDNESS AMONG RESIDENTS.
HE SAID MANY RESIDENTS NOW HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CIVIC EDUCATION BY TAKING PART IN ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY THE COMMITTEE.
MR BURRETT SAID HE HOPED THE CAMPAIGN COULD ALSO ENCOURAGE MORE ORGANISATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
THE CAMPAIGN WAS LAUNCHED IN NOVEMBER. ACTIVITIES HELD INCLUDED A SINGING CONTEST, TRAINING CAMP, EXHIBITION, COLOURING COMPETITION, CARTOON DESIGN CONTEST, CIVIC EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION SCHEME, CIVIC EDUCATION GAMES DAY AND FORUMS.
KWUN TONG EYE-SORE CLEARED
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A MAJOR EYE-SORE IN KWUN TONG INVOLVING SOME 100 ILLEGAL STRUCTURES WERE CLEARED TODAY (FRIDAY) AFTER TWO SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS.
THE ILLEGAL STRUCTURES, SOME THREE-STOREY HIGH, HAD BEEN PUT UP AT WAN HON STREET. ÁN OPERATION LAST MONTH CLEARED 57 STRUCTURES AND THE REMAINING 50 WERE SUCCESSFULLY CLEARED THIS MORNING.
THE OPERATION TODAY WAS PART OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME INITIATED BY THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND WAS JOINTLY CARRIED OUT BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT, THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT OFFICE.
OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY TODAY'S OPERATION, 27 PEOPLE WERE RESETTLED IN PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS AND 70 WERE ALLOCATED TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS.
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