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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1982

CALL TO VOTE IN ISLANDS DISTRICT

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WITH ONLY A FEW DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS ARE HELD, ISLAND DISTRICT OFFICER, MR RICKY FUNG, TODAY (SUNDAY) APPEALED TO ALL ELIGIBLE VOTERS OF THE DISTRICT TO VOTE ON POLLING DAY ON THURSDAY (MARCH 4).

+THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, DON'T GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE,+ HE URGED,

HE SAID HE HOPED RESIDENTS WOULD COME FORWARD TO CHOOSE THOSE THEY BELIEVED COULD REPRESENT THEIR OPINIONS ON THE DISTRICT BOARD.

+THROUGH THE CANDIDATES YOU ELECT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE A SAY IN HOW PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES IN THE DISTRICT CAN BE IMPROVED, HOW THE ENVIRONMENT CAN BE MADE BETTER, MR FUNG SAID.

HE SAID THERE WOULD BE A TOTAL OF 15 POLLING STATIONS SET UP IN THE FIVE CONSTITUENCIES OF ISLANDS DISTRICT AND POLLING HOURS WOULD BE THE SAME AS IN THE OTHER SEVEN DISTRICTS (7 AM - 10 PM).

HE REMINDED VOTERS THAT THEY SHOULD BRING THEIR IDENTITY CARDS OR DRIVING LICENCES WITH THEM AND VOTE ONLY AT THE POLLING STATION

INDICATED ON THE IR POLL CARDS.

+VOTERS WILL BE GIVEN EVERY POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE, HE SAID.

THE LOCATIONS OF POLLING STATIONS ARE *

CHEUNG CHAU EAST CONSTITUENCY: CHEUNG CHAU GOVERNMENT MIDDLE

SCHOOL.

CHEUNG CHAU NORTH CONSTITUENCY, CHEUNG CHAU KWOK MAN SCHOOL,

LAMMA AND PO TOI CONSTITUENCY:

LANTAU AND ASSOCIATED ISLANDS

CONSTITUENCY:

PENG CHAU CONSTITUENCY:

NORTHERN LAMMA SCHOOL- SOUTH LAMMA COMMUNITY CENTRE- AND PO TOI VILLAGE OFFICE.

MUI WO RECREATION CENTRE- BUT O SCHOOL- TONG FUK VILLAGE OFFICE- PO LIN MONASTERY'S GENERAL OFFICE WING CHOR SCHOOL- SHA LO WAN VILLAGE OFFICE SAN TAU VILLAGE OFFICE AND COMMUNITY CENTRE- TUNG CHUNG PUBLIC SCHOOL AND PAK MONG SCHOOL.

PENG CHAU CHI YAN PUBLIC SCHOOL.

DIRECTIONAL SIGNS WILL BE SET UP IN THE VARIOUS CONSTITUENCIES TO GUIDE VOTERS TO POLLING STATIONS.

VOTERS WHO HAVE ANY ENQUIRIES ABOUT VOTING PROCEDURES SHOULD TELEPHONE ISLANDS DISTRICT OFFICE ON 5-409207, 5-409934 OR 5-409225.

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