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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1983

IF ANY ELECTOR IN THESE 12 CONSTITUENCIES IS IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT HIS POLLING STATION, HE CAN TELEPHONE THE REGISTRATION OFFICER AT 5-270380 OR 5-270369 QUOTING HIS HONG KONG IDENTITY CARD NUMBER AND HE WILL BE ADVISED.

+THE POLL CARD, WHICH SERVES TO INFORM THE ELECTOR OF THE LOCATION OF HIS POLLING STATION, IS NOT ESSENTIAL ALTHOUGH IT WILL CERTAINLY BE OF HELP TO POLLING STAFF.+

MR BRAY ALSO APPEALED TO CANDIDATES AND THEIR AGENTS TO AVOID EXCESSIVE LOBBYING OF ELECTORS AT THE ENTRANCE OF POLLING STATIONS TO AVOID OBSTRUCTION.

COUNTING OF VOTES WILL BEGIN AT EIGHT COUNTING CENTRES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER THE CLOSE OF POLL AT 11 PM.

FORTY-ONE CANDIDATES WERE NOMINATED TO CONTEST 15 SEATS -- ONE FOR EACH OF THE 15 CONSTITUENCIES.

HOWEVER, MR BRAY POINTED OUT THERE WOULD BE NO ELECTIONS IN THREE CONSTITUENCIES, NAMELY WAN CHAI, KWUN TONG WEST AND WONG TAI SIN SOUTH.

+THIS IS BECAUSE ONLY ONE CANDIDATE WAS NOMINATED IN EACH OF THESE CONSTITUENCIES AND THE THREE HAVE BEEN DECLARED ELECTED UNOPPOSED, HE SAID.

REFORMS TO COPE WITH CHANGING SOCIETY ****

REFORMS OF GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGING WORLD OF HONG KONG WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED WITH TOMORROW'S URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS, THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

BY THEN, HE SAID, NOT ONLY WOULD EVERYONE IN HONG KONG BE REPRESENTED BY A DISTRICT BOARD, BUT DISTRICT BOARDS IN THE URBAN AREA WOULD BE LINKED TO THE URBAN COUNCIL. DISTRICT BOARDS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES ON THE OTHER HAND WERE LINKED TO THE HEUNG YEE KUK THROUGH THE CHAIRMEN OF THE RURAL COMMITTEES.

SPEAKING AT THE MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEW TERRITORIES THIS EVENING, MR AKERS-JONES SAID THERE HAD BEEN CONSTANT CHANGES IN THE LAST 40 YEARS, CAUSING A DISINTEGRATION OF THE COMMUNITY.

+THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT BEEN INDIFFERENT TO THE NEED TO ADJUST GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND TO INTRODUCE NEW WAYS OF BRINGING OUR PEOPLE TOGETHER, HE SAID.

/IN 1968,