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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1987

BE DISCREET ON ELECTION CALL

OF THE CHAIRMAN

THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC BOTH THE VOTERS EDUCATION, MRS RITA FAN, TODAY (SATURDAY) CALLED ON AND THE CANDIDATES TO ACT DISCREETLY IN THE COMING DISTRICT BOARD ELECTION.

SPEAKING AT A WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY THE COMMITTEE, MRS FAN

CIVIC POINTED OUT THAT ELECTION WAS A FORM OF EXERCISING

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES THROUGH WHICH CITIZENS COULD SELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF IN INFLUENCING GOVERNMENT POLICY.

WHILE NOTING THAT PARTICIPATION IN VOTING WAS WORTH

FOR IMPORTANT

THE PUBLIC TO ENCOURAGING, SHE STRESSED THAT IT WAS APPRECIATE THE IMPLICATIONS OF CASTING A VOTE WHICH THEREFORE MUST TAKEN SERIOUSLY,

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BE

'APART FROM HAVING A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLATFORM, BACKGROUND AND PERFORMANCE OF THE CANDIDATES, THEY SHOULD ALSO THEIR CONSIDER WHETHER THE CANDIDATES, ONCE ELECTED, COULD LIVE UP TO PROMISE.

"AN UNFULFILED PLATFORM IS NO MORE THAN AN EMPTY MANIFESTO," SHE SAID.

FOR THE VIEWS CALMLY POLITICAL

STRIVING AS FOR THE CANDIDATES, MRS FAN SAID THAT IN INTEREST OF THEIR VOTERS, THEY SHOULD ANALYSE DIFFERENT

TO ACCOMMODATE AND RESPECT AND OBJECTIVELY, AND BE ABLE VIEWS OPPOSITE TO THEIRS.

ATMOSPHERE

THAT

"IT IS ONLY BY MEANS OF CREATING A HARMONIOUS

COULD BUILD UP ITS STRENGTH ΤΟ FACE UP TO EXTERNAL

HONG HONG CHALLENGE, SHE SAID.

"AND THE OBJECTIVE OF CIVIC EDUCATION IS TO FOSTER A CARE AND CONCERN FOR THE SOCIETY AMONGST CITIZENS WITH THE AIM OF BUILDING UP A BETTER FUTURE, SHE ADDED.

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SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY FOR

THE ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO,

DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION, MR BOWEN LEUNG, PAID TRIBUTE TO THE COMMITTEE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION.

SENSE OF ULTIMATE

DISTRICT DISTRICT

ON THE

MR LEUNG NOTED THAT THROUGH THE ACTIVE PROMOTIONAL WORK BY COMMITTEE, CIVIC EDUCATION HAD BECOME AN IMPORTANT FOCAL POINT OF SOCIETY.

HE

THE

THE

ON THE GOVERNMENT'S SUPPORT TO THE COMMITTEE,

POINTED OUT BEEN A MARKED THAT APART FROM PROVIDING MANPOWER BACK-UP, THERE HAD

YEAR FINANCIALLY WITH BOOST TO THE COMMITTEE THIS

A 70 PER CENT

ALLOCATION, INCREASE IN FUNDS

$700,000 IN 1986/87 CONCERN GOVERNMENT'S MILLION, WHICH CLEARLY INDICATED PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION.

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