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MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1987

HE POINTED (1 THAT THE REGISTRATION RATE OF YOUNG PEOPLE WAS COMPARATIVELY LOWBU HAN OTHER AGE GROUPS AND OF THE 167,100 ELIGIBLE VOTERS IN THE DISTI IT, ONLY 66,000 HAD REGISTERED.

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TO MARK THE GO YNING OF THE EXHIBITION, MR GARCIA AND DISTRICT HOARD CHAIRMAN, MR VINCENT KO, UNROLLED GIANT SCROLLS BEARING THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN.

ASIA TELE (LON ARTISTES WERE ON HAND ΤΟ HELP RESIDENTS REGISTER AND DISTI ·NUTE BOOKMARKS TO PUBLICISE THE CIVIC RIGHTS OF A 21-YEAR-OLD CITIZE

4,

AT THE FIR CON, AN ENG -HUNG, DEMONSTRATED CHINESE

·PPORT FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

85-YEAR-OLD CALLIGRAPUIST, MR CHAN CALLIGRAPHY IMPROMPTU TO SHOW HIS

THE EXHIBITION, FEATURING THE FUNCTIONS OF DISTRICT BOARD, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN DISTRICT, WAS ORGANISED BY THE DISTRICT OFFICE TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF DISTRICT IDENTITY AND CIVIC AWARENESS.

SPONSORED BY THE SHUN TAK SHOPPING MALL, THE EXHIBITION WILL OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY (COUST 28). DURING THE PERIOD. RESIDENTS MAY ORTAIN FORMS OR REGISTER AT A COUNTER MANNED BY DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM.

NORTH DISTRICT RESIDENTS URGED TO SIGN UP

NORTH DISTR (T

MR OFFICER,

MATTHEW THE DISTRICT

ΤΟ

CHEUNG, TODAY (MONDAY) EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC

URGED ELIGIBLE RES DENTS IN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES BY SIGNING UP AS VOTERS.

ELECTORATE

OF

SPEAKING AT THE CLOSING OF THE DISTRICT SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMME,

SAID THAT

DISTRICT HAD A POTENTIAL “IN CHEUNG 81,000 OUT OF A POPULATION OF 145,000.

THE

TO PUBLICIRE

THE VOTER REGISTRATION

MESSAGE, THE DISTRICT

OF

PROMOTIONAL

ACTIVITIES

MOST OF

OFFICE HAD DRAWN UP A PROGRAMME WITCH HAD ALREADY BEEN LAUNCHED, MR CHEUNG SAID.

THESE INCLUDE