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TURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1986

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MR PAO PING-WING IS TO CHAIR THE CAPITAL WORKS SELECT COMMITTEE. WITH MRS MARGARET LI AS VICE CHAIRMAN MR HILTON CHEONG-LEEN WILL CHAIR DISTRICT RELATIONS SELECT COMMITTEE (MR FAN KAM-PING AS VICE CHAIRMAN) DR RONALD LEUNG, ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE (MR TONG KAM-BIU) MR WALTER

SULKE, FINANCE SELECT COMMITTEE (MR MARVIN CHEUNG) MISS CECILIA YEUNG, FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE (MR L.H. KWAN) AND MR LEE CHIK-YUET, MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS (MRS ELSIE TU).

CHAIRMEN AND VICE CHAIRMEN OF THE REMAINING SEVEN SELECT COMMITTEES ARE AS FOLLOW:

ADMINISTRATION, DR KIM CHAM (MRS NELLIE FONG) CULTURE MR LAWRENCE FUNG (MÀ LO KING-MAN) ENTERTAINMENT, MR STEPHEN LAU (MR FREDERICK K.K. FUNG) LIBRARIES, MR JOSEPH CHAN (MR LAM CHAK-PIU) LIQUOR LICENSING BOARD, MR PETER C.K. CHAN (MR KWAN LIM-HO) MUSEUMS, DR PHILIP KWOK (MR LAM CHAK-PIU) RECREATION, MR HOWARD YOUNG (MR SAMUEL WONG).

CHEUNG ELECTED REGIONAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN

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MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG WAS ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL TODAY WHEN THE COUNCIL OFFICIALLY CAME INTO BEING.

ELECTED VICE-CHAIRMAN WAS MR NATHAN MA,

THE ELECTION TOOK PLACE JUST BEFORE THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.

MB-CHEUNG AND MR MA HELD SIMILAR POSTS IN THE PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL WHICH CEASED TO EXIST WHEN ITS ONE-YEAR TERM ENDED ON MARCH 31.

AT ITS INAUGURAL MEETING HELD SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF 36, AGREED TO APPOINT MRS PAMELA TAN, SECRETARY OF THE FORMER PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL, AS SECRETARY' OF THE FULL COUNCIL.

THE MEETING DECIDED THAT THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, WHICH REPLACES THE NEW TERRITORIES LIQUOR LICENSING BOARD AS THE LIQUOR LICENSING AUTHORITY IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA FROM TODAY, SHOULD ADOPT A LICENSING SCHEME BASED ON THE POLICY AND PROCEDURES PREVIOUSLY FOLLOWED BY THE BOARD.

ALSO DECIDED WAS THE ADOPTION OF THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE THAT HAD WORKED EFFECTIVELY FOR THE PROVISIONAL REGIONAL COUNCIL.

/THE DIRECTOR