TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1987
NEW CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES FOR EASTERN DISTRICT
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FOUR ELECTED SEATS AND ONE CONSTITUENCY WILL BE ADDED TO THE EASTERN DISTRICT BOARD IN THE 1988 ELECTIONS, MAKING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELECTED SEATS TO 22 AND THE NUMBER OF CONSTITUENCIES TO 13.
ANNOUNCING DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN A BRIEFING TODAY (TUESDAY), EASTERN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR BOWEN LEUNG, SAID THE CHANGES WOULD CATER FOR FUTURE POPULATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE DISTRICT.
MR LEUNG SAID ALL THE PRESENT INTER-CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES WOULD BE CHANGED WITHOUT AFFECTING THE DISTRICT BOUNDARY AS A WHOLE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DISTRICT BOUNDARY BETWEEN EASTERN AND WAN CHAI WHERE PART OF TAI HANG AREA NOW FALLING WITHIN EASTERN DISTRICT WOULD RETURN TO WAN CHAI.
UNDER THE NEW PROPOSAL, NORTH POINT WEST CONSTITUENCY WOULD BE SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE CONSTITUENCIES, NAMELY NORTH POINT NORTH AND NORTH POINT SOUTH, USING KING'S ROAD AS THE DIVIDING LINE. NORTH POINT NORTH WOULD HAVE TWO ELECTED SEATS WHILE NORTH POINT SOUTH WOULD HAVE ONE.
THREE MORE ELECTED SEATS WOULD GO TO CAUSEWAY BAY NORTH, CHAI WAN WEST AND CHAI WAN SOUTH RESPECTIVELY, MR LEUNG SAID.
CONCERNING THOSE CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES WHERE MORE CHANGES WOULD BE INVOLVED, THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF NORTH POINT EAST CONSTITUENCY WOULD SHIFT WESTWARD TO THE JUNCTION OF JAVA ROAD AND HOI YUE STREET WHILE A LINE RUNNING NEXT TO THE PETROL FILLING STATION OPPOSITE FINNIE STREET GOING UPHILL WOULD BECOME ITS SOUTHERN BOUNDARY.
RIGHT NEXT TO NORTH POINT EAST WOULD BE QUARRY BAY NORTH WHERE THE WESTERN BOUNDARY WOULD BE SHIFTED WESTWARD TO INCLUDE QUARRY BAY RECLAMATION, AND ITS EASTERN BOUNDARY WOULD SHIFT WESTWARD TO TAI CHEONG STREET, THUS RETURNING SAI WAN HO RECLAMATION TO SAI WAN HO CONSTITUENCY.
THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF QUARRY BAY SOUTH WOULD BE EXTENDED WESTWARD TO MEET THE CAUSEWAY BAY SOUTH CONSTITUENCY AND WAN CHAI WHILE THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY WOULD BE SET SOUTH OF THE PETROL FILLING STATION OPPOSITE FINNIE STREET.
SHAU KEI WAN HILLSIDE CONSTITUENCY WOULD BE RENAMED SHAU KEI WAN CONSTITUENCY AND THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY WOULD SHIFT NORTHWARD ALONG SHAU KEI WAN ROAD TO INCLUDE THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS SOUTH OF THE ROAD.
THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF A KUNG NGAM CONSTITUENCY WOULD BE EXTENDED FURTHER EASTWARD TO INCLUDE THE ENTIRE LYEMUN BARRACKS WHILE ITS SOUTHERN BOUNDARY WOULD RUN ALONG CHAI WAN ROAD UP TO
ITS INTER-SECTION WITH TAI TAM ROAD.
THE HILL