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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1990
OTHER PROGRAMMES WOULD INCLUDE
PROMOTION THROUGH THE MEDIA, THE FORM OF LETTERS TO THOSE WHO APPLIED SEVEN YEARS OF
AND PROMOTION THROUGH DIRECT APPROACHES IN THOSE WHO WERE OFFERED PUBLIC HOUSING AND ALSO TO
ON COMPLETION IDENTITY FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN HONG KONG.
CARDS
OF
CARD
FORMS TO THEIR
BESIDES, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CONSIDER APPROACHING CREDIT COMPANIES REQUESTING THEM TO SEND VOTER REGISTRATION CLIENTS ALONG WITH THE MONTHLY STATEMENTS,
OFFICERS ARE PLANNING THEIR AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, DISTRICT
WHICH WOULD BE TAILORED ΤΟ
DISTRICT'S PUBLICITY ACTIVITIES CHARACTERISTICS AND POPULATION COMPOSITION.
BACH
OF BANNERS AT MAIN INCLUDE DISPLAY THESE ACTIVITIES WOULD
GROUPS, ORGANISING FUN FAIRS THOROUGHFARES, LIAISON WITH COMMUNITY
STATIONS AND STALL GAMES, AND SETTING UP REGISTRATION COUNTERS AT MTR AND MAJOR COMMERCIAL CENTRES.
·
MR SUEN NOTED THAT THE PRESENT OVERALL VOTER REGISTRATION WAS ABOUT 44 PER CENT, WITH 1.6 MILLION REGISTERED ELECTORS.
HE WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT OF THE 1.6 MILLION, ONLY IN THE 21-25 AGE GROUP, REPRESENTING A REGISTRATION RATE PER CENT OF THE BRACKET.
OF 440,000- TOTAL
ELIGIBLE
ELECTORS
RATE
53,000 WERE OF ONLY 12 THIS AGR
IN
HE CALLED ON THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD AND REGISTER.
"WITH THE SUPPORT FROM THE MEDIA,
THE PUBLICITY AND
PUBLIC'S INCREASING
THE HOPE
NUMBER THAT RESPONSIBILITIES, I WOULD REACH THE TWO MILLION MARK THIS YEAR,
"
OF THEIR OF
REGISTERED MR SUEN SAID.
A BETTER CO-ORDINATION IN
AWARENESS
CIVIC ELECTORS
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TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT EMPHASISES WIDER USE OF TECHNOLOGY
IN AN EFFORT TO SAVE DEPARTMENT WILL
TRANSPORT
ON
AND FINANCIAL RELY
MANPOWER MODERN TECHNOLOGY
RESOURCES, TO
THE PROVIDE
SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
THIS WAS
KWAN
0
TRANSPORT, MR GORDON SIU, AT A
TSEUNG TECHNOLOGY WERE HELD.
STATED
TODAY
WHERE TUNNEL
(THURSDAY) MEET-THE-MEDIA
BY THE
SESSION
SEVERAL DEMONSTRATIONS
FOR COMMISSIONER
HELD AT THE OF THE NEW
MR
SIU SAID
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
INCREASING DEMAND FOR SERVICES FROM THE PUBLIC WHILE RESOURCES THE DEPARTMENT WERE LIMITED.
FACED
A CONSTANTLY WITHIN
/HE BELIEVED