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SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1983

LAW REFORM COMMISSION'S REPORT

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A PRESS CONFERENCE TO RELEASE THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION'S REPORT ON COMMUNITY SERVICE ORDERS WILL BE HELD AT 3.30 PM ON TUESDAY (JUNE 7) IN THE GIS THEATRE, FIFTH FLOOR, BEACONSFIELD HOUSE.

THE CONFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JOHN GRIFFITHS, WHO IS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION AND MR HU FA-KUANG, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMUNITY SERVICE ORDERS SUB-COMMITTEE.

YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE EVENT.

GOOD WORK BY MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES

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MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES, AS GRASS-ROOT LEVEL ORGANISATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY, HAD EFFECTIVELY REFLECTED PUBLIC OPINION TO THE GOVERNMENT, THE WONG TAI SIN DISTRICT OFFICER, MR PHILIP CHOK, SAID TODAY.

IN SO DOING, THE MACS HAD HELPED CULTIVATE BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND CONFIDENCE BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE GOVERNMENT, HE SAID.

HE WAS ADDRESSING SOME 3 000 PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN A CARNIVAL AT THE MORSE PARK TO LAUNCH THE +WỌNG TAI SIN WEST SUB-DISTRICTS MAC FORTNIGHT+,

*APART FROM ENTHUSIASTICALLY PROMOTING SPORTS, RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES, THESE COMMITTEES ALSO PARTICIPATE

IN PROJECTS INVOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT, LAW AND ORDER, AND CLEAN-UP PROGRAMMES.

+FOLLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE MACS HAVE NOW ASSUMED AN EVEN MORE IMPORTANT ROLE IN THAT THEY ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH AREA COMMITTEES, THE DISTRICT BOARDS AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, HE SAID.

THE MAC FORTNIGHT, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE WONG TAI SIN DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE AREA COMMITTEES OF TUNG TAU, LOK FU AND WANG TAU HOM, IS AIMED AT PUBLICISING THE IMPORTANCE OF MACS IN THE WORK OF COMMUNITY BUILDING AS WELL AS HELPING TO FOSTER BETTER CO-OPERATION AMONG THE LOCAL DISTRICT BOARD, ACS AND MACS.

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