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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935

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CANDIDATES REMINDED ABOUT CAMPAIGN PROCEDURES

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CANDIDATES SEEKING ELECTION TO THE DISTRICT BOARDS ON MARCH 7 WERE REMINDED TODAY THAT THEY MUST OBTAIN PRIOR PERMISSION BEFORE PUTTING UP CAMPAIGN POSTERS OR BANNERS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT POSTERS AND BANNERS CANNOT BE PUT UP ON PUBLIC PROPERTY WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS.

+CANDIDATES SHOULD EXERCISE RESTRAINT AND SELF-DISCIPLINE AND MUST ENSURE THAT NO RISK TO LIFE AND PROPERTY ARISES FROM THE DISPLAY OF BANNERS AND POSTERS, HE ADDED.

IN PREPARING CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY, CANDIDATES SHOULD PROVIDE TWO COPIES OF ALL PRINTED ELECTION MATERIALS, INCLUDING ANY ADDRESS, BILL, NOTICE, PLACARD OR POSTER, TO THE RETURNING OFFICER NOT LATER THAN SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE IR PUBLICATION.

POSITIVE YOUTH ROLE IN SOCIETY URGED

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YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD SHAKE OFF THEIR INERTIA TOWARDS COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND ASSUME A ROLE OF POSITIVE INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIETY, THE HON MRS SELINA CHOW SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR, MRS CHOW SAID THE UNITED NATIONS INTENTION IN DESIGNATING 1985 AS INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR WAS TO DRAW WORLD ATTENTION TO THE LARGEST SEGMENT OF THE WORLD POPULATION WHICH WOULD SHAPE THE WORLD' FUTURE.

+OF THE 5.3 MILLION PEOPLE IN HONG KONG, 2.3 MILLION WERE UNDER THE AGE OF 25, AND 3.7 MILLION ARE UNDER 40.

+ IT IS ONLY APPROPRIATE FOR US TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THEM, THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THE BEST WAY THEY COULD PREPARE THEMSELVES TO MEET THE CHALLENGES IMMEDIATELY FACING HONG KONG AS A RESULT OF OUR CHANGE IN CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS IN 1997.

+ THE THREE MAIN THEMES OF THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR ARE:

PARTICIPATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE.

*ON THEIR OWN, THEY MAY SOUND LOFTY AND IDEALISTIC.

→BUT WHEN APPLIED TO PRESENT DAY HONG KONG, THEY ARE APPROPRIATE AND TIMELY.

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