MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1987
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SHA TIN STEPS UP VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE
THE VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE IN SHA TIN WILL ENTER 1TS SECOND PHASE TOMORROW (TUESDAY) WITH MANPOWER BEING DOUBLED.
SHA TIN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR VICTOR YUNG, SAID TODAY (MONDAY) TJIAT 20 MORE "REGISTRATION AMBASSADORS" WOULD JOIN THE EXISTING 20 WHO HAD COMMENCED DUTY FROM MID-AUGUST TO PAY DOOR-TO-DOOR VISITS AND ASSIST RESIDENTS TO REGISTER.
"THE VISITS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN TRE FVENING FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY AND IN THE AFTERNOON ON SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS," НЕ SAID.
"IN ADDITION, A COUNTER HAS BEEN SET UP AT THE LOBBY BETWEEN NRW TOWN PLAZA AND KCR STATION FOR REGISTRATION ON SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. SOUVENIRS WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO SIGN UP."
ON PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES, MR YUNG SAID BANNERS AND POSTERS HAD BEEN PUT UP IN PROMINENT PLACES IN THE NINE CONSTITUENCIES AND TWO BROADCASTING VANS WOULD CONTINUR TO BROADCAST THE VOTER REGISTRATION MESSAGE TUROUGHOUT SHA TIN DURING THE 12 DAYA AND EVENINGS OF THE CAMPAIGN PERIOD.
MR YUNG HAS ALSO SENT PERSONAL APPEAL LETTERS TO ALL. MUTUAL AJD COMMITTEES, AREA COMMITTEES, RURAL COMMITTEES AS WELL AB VOLUNTARY AGENCIES, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES, GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND LARGE COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
"OF THE 202,000 POTENTIAL ELECTORS IN THE DISTRICT, ABOUT 130,000 PEOPLE HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED. I WISH TO REMIND THEM THAT IT IS THEIR RIGHT AND BUTY TO DO 80, HE SAID.
"FOR THOSE WHO HAVE REGISTERED, T WISH TO REMIND THEM THEY HAVE MOVED INTO SHA TIN AND CHANGED THEIR RESIDENTIAL THEY SHOULD NOTIFY THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL DIVISION, THEY COULD VOTE IN THEIR NEW CONSTITUENCIES IN THE NEXT BOARD ELECTION,"
THAT 1F ADDRESS, SO THAT DISTRICT
REGISTRATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE SHA TIN DISTRICT OFFICE, THE FOUR KOR STATIONS, ALL COMMUNITY HALLS, HOUSING ESTATE OFFICES, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT OFFICE, POST OFFICES, AS WELL AS HANG SENG AND HONG KONG BANK IN THE DISTRICT, HE ADDED.
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