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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1085

INEVITABLY, HE SAID, THERE WERE SOME THINGS OVER WHICH THE KUK AND GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN UNABLE TO ACHIEVE A COMPLETE IDENTIT/ OF VIEWS, CONSIDERING THE IDE RANGE AND COMPLEXITY OF THE ISSUE >> INVOLVED.

+AS IN THE PAST, WE WILL CONTINUE TO DISCUSS THESE ISSUES T. PEACH AGREEMENT AND ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF HONG KONG AS A *MOLE, HE SAID.

HE NOTED THAT FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD HAD ACHIEVED SO MUCH IN SUCH A SHORT TIME IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TOWNS AND NEW COMMUNITIES REPLACING A PREVIOUSLY RURAL ENVIRONMENT.

AS DEVELOPMENT TOOK PLACE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME PART OF GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITY WHERE, BECAUSE OF THE DISTANCES INVOLVED, OR BECAUSE OF THE RAPID GROWTH OF POPULATION, FACILITIES HAD NOT YET REACHED A SATISFACTORY LEVEL, HE POINTED OUT.

NEVERTHELESS, HE SAID, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, CULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, POLICE AND FIRE STATIONS ETC, WERE NOW MORE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED THAN ANY TIME IN THE PAST THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF HONG KONG.

SIR DAVID THEN EXPRESSED THANKS TO ALL THE PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE KUK WHO HAD GIVEN MUCH OF THEIR TIME IN DISCHARG! THE IR RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE PEOPLE WHOM THEY REPRESENTED.

MORE NOMINATIONS COMING IN SIR DAVID

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MORE NOMINATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS ARE BEGINNING TO COME IN, THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS- JONES SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

HE WAS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER OFFICIATING AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE 26TH TERM OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK AT THE TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL.

ASKED IF HE THOUGHT THAT THE NOMINATIONS HAD BEEN RATHER SLOW, HE SAID: +1 THINK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN A BIT SLOW IN MAKING UP THEIR MINDS, BUT THEY ARE BEGINNING TO COME IN NOW.

+ I THINK THERE ARE 15 ALREADY REGISTERED IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND SOME ARE COMING IN IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

HE POINTED OUT THAT THERE HAD BEEN TWO NOMINATIONS IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE UP TO 12 NOON AND MORE ARE COMING IN.

ASKED IF HE WAS SURPRISED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK, MR LAU WONG-FAT'S ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT IN HIS SPEECH AT THE CEREMONY, SIR DAVID SAID: +MR LAU WONG-FAT AND I HAVE KNOWN ONE ANOTHER FOR OVER 20 YEARS NOW. AND WE ARE USED TO SPEAKING FRANKLY TO ONE ANOTHER. SO I AM ALWAYS VERY GLAD TO LISTEN TO WHAT MR LAU HAS TO SAY, AND TO EXCHANGE OPINIONS WITH HIM.

/ASKED WHETHER