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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1987

"THEY HAVE REFLECTED TO THE GOVERNMENT MANY USEFUL VIEWS. BY ALLOWING PEOPLE FROM THE DIFFERENT SOCIAL STRATA TO PARTICIPATE IN DISTRICT AFFAIRS, THE DISTRICT BOARDS HAVE ENHANCED A TIGHTER STRUCTURE WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION AND THEY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM, MR GARCIA SAID.

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HE REMINDED RESIDENTS WHO HAD CHANGED THEIR ADDRESS то NOTIFY THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL DIVISION BY FILLING IN A FORM AVAILABLE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE.

AFTER THE CEREMONY, A TRAM AND A BUS TOURED WAN CHAI то PUBLICISE THE VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE.

DURING THE VOTER REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN, STAFF OF THE WAN CHAI THE DISTRICT OFFICE WILL CONDUCT DOOR-TO-DOOR VISITS TO HOUSEHOLDS IN DISTRICT AND CALL ON COMMERCIAL FIRMS TO HELP REGISTER ELIGIBLE ELECTORS.

KWUN TONG VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE

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(SATURDAY)

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KWUN TONG DISTRICT OFFICER, MR EDDY CHAN, TODAY

THAT THEY URGED ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS TO REGISTER AS ELECTORS SO BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR.

VOTER

ELECTOR WAS

CEREMONY OF THE KWUN TONG SPEAKING AT THE INAUGURAL REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN, MR CHAN SAID THAT TO BECOME AN CIVIC RIGHT AND RESIDENTS SHOULD EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS.

AND OR HAS LIVED IN HONG HE SAID.

"ANYONE WHO HAS REACHED OR WILL BE 21 YEARS OLD THIS YEAR, WHO IS EITHER A HONG KONG PERMANENT RESIDENT KONG FOR SEVEN YEARS ARE ELIGIBLE ELECTORS,

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BY THE ACCORDING TO FIGURES SUPPLIED DEPARTMENT IN 1986, KWUN TONG DISTRICT HAS A OF WHICH 459,000 ARE POTENTIAL ELECTORS,

CENSUS AND STATISTICS POPULATION OF 680,000,

RESIDENTS ARE

"A TOTAL OF 180,000 KWUN TONG GENERAL ELECTORAL ROLL, REPRESENTING 39.5 PER CENT ELECTORATE, MR CHAN NOTED.

ALREADY IN THE OF OUR POTENTIAL

BEING MADE BY THE

KWUN TONG

HE SAID AN ALL-OUT EFFORT WAS DISTRICT OFFICE TO GET THE REMAINING ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS REGISTERED.

/ALSO SPEAKING