XN000022-1986-11-23 — Page 3

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1986

SIR DAVID ADDED THAT HE DID NOT THINK THAT DB MEMBERS WERE TRYING TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT AT A TIME THE GOVERNMENT WAS REVIEWING THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM.

WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WAS THAT THE ALLOWANCE WAS NOT ENOUGH AND THAT IN ORDER TO DO THE IR JOB PROPERLY THEY WOULD LIKE MORE MONEY. AND THEY WOULD LIKE MORE MONEY TO SET UP THE IR OWN OFFICES SO THAT THEY COULD SERVE THE PEOPLE BETTER THAN THEY WERE AT THE MOMENT, SIR DAVID SAID.

WELL BE ING OF RURAL COMMUNITIES NOT OVERLOOKED

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THE WELL-BEING OF RESIDENTS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FANLING/SHEUNG SHUI NEW TOWN GATHERED MOMENTUM, NORTH DISTRICT OFFICER, MR MATTHEW CHEUNG SAID TODAY.

IN FACT, THE GOVERNMENT HAD EMBARKED ON AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME TO UPGRADE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE REMOTER PARTS OF THE DISTRICT, HE SAID.

SPEAKING AT THE PRIZE PRESENTATION CEREMONY OF THE SEVENTH NORTH DISTRICT ATHLETIC MEET, MR CHEUNG SAID THAT AS PART OF AN OVERALL EFFORT TO EXTEND ITS SERVICE TO THE FAR CORNERS IN THE RURAL AREAS, THE DISTRICT OFFICE WOULD SET UP TWO SUB-OFFICES IN SHA TAU KOK AND TA KWU LING.

THE SHA TAU KOK OFFICE WOULD FIT IN WITH THE $200 MILLION REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SHA TAU KOK TOWNSHIP WHICH WAS UNDERWAY WHILE THE ONE IN TA KWU LING WOULD FORM THE CORE OF THE RURAL CENTRE TO BE BUILT AT PING CHE, MR CHEUNG SAID.

HE SAID THAT BOTH OFFICES WOULD CONSIST OF A FULL RANGE OF PUBLIC ENQUIRY AND LIAISON SERVICES AND WOULD OPERATE ALONGS IDE A PURPOSE-BUILT COMMUNITY HALL TO BE MANAGED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE.

+THESE FACILITIES PROVIDING A FOCAL POINT FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES IN THE IR RESPECTIVE AREAS WOULD NO DOUBT BRING THE GOVERNMENT CLOSER TO THE COMMUNITY, + MR CHEUNG SAID.

TURNING TO THE PROVISION OF RECREATION AND SPORTS FACILITIES FOR THE FAST GROWING NORTH DISTRICT, MR CHEUNG SAID THAT A SOPHISTICATED SPORTS COMPLEX, COMPRISING TRACK AND FIELD GROUND, FOOTBALL PITCHES AND A SPECTATOR STAND ACCOMMODATING 2 500 PEOPLE WOULD BE BUILT NEAR TIN PING ESTATE IN SHEUNG SHUT.

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