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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1982

NEW TSUEN WAN MANAGER MEETS DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS

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TSUEN WAN'S NEW TOWN MANAGER, MR HAMISH MACLEOD, HELD HIS FIRST MEETING WITH DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS TODAY TUESDAY).

IT WAS ALSO THE BOARD'S LAST MEETING IN ITS PRESENT FORM BEFORE 10 ELECTED MEMBERS JOIN AT THE START OF NEXT FINANCIAL YEAR,

MR MACLEOD SAID AS A NEWCOMER TO THE TOWN HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE FAST RATE OF DEVELOPMENT, NOTING THAT THE POPULATION WOULD RISE BY 300 000 TO 900 000 OVER THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS.

SAID.

+THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME FOR ME TO COME TO TSUEN WAN HE

+1 AM ANXIOUS THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TSUEN WAN SHOULD HAVE A TOWN CENTRE WORTHY OF ITS SIZE AND IMPORTANCE,+ HE ADDED.

THIS WOULD BE MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE OPENING OF THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY EXTENSION AND THE WATERFRONT RECLAMATION WEST OF THE EXISTING TSUEN WAN FERRY PIER.

UPON COMPLETION, THESE DEVELOPMENTS WOULD PROVIDE HIGH CLASS SHOPPING AREAS AND OFFICES AND MUCH NEEDED FACILITIES SUCH AS A LIBRARY, CAR-PARK SPACES, AN AUDITORIUM AND A LARGE AREA OF OPEN SPACES.

MR MACLEOD SAID HE ALSO LOOKED FORWARD TO THE NEW INSIGHT WHICH THE ELECTED MEMBERS WOULD BRING TO THE BOARD,

+I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO URGE ALL THOSE ON THE ELECTORAL ROLL TO VOTE THIS THURSDAY IN THE DB ELECTIONS, HE SAID.

+TSUEN WAN PEOPLE CAN ONLY BENEFIT FROM THEIR DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WHETHER OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL, ELECTED OR APPOINTED, IF THEY SPEAK UP AND IDENTIFY PROBLEM AREAS AND MAKE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM, HE SAID.

AT PRESENT TSUEN WAN DISTRICT BOARD HAS 29 MEMBERS.

WITH THE ADDITION OF ELECTED MEMBERS THE NUMBER WILL RISE TO 37, COMPRISING 11 OFFICIALS AND 26 UNOFFICIALS, EACH OF WHOM WILL SERVE FOR A THREE-YEAR TERM.

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