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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1988

HONG KONG GOES TO THE POLLS ON THURSDAY

WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY THE 1988 DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS (MARCH 10), MARKING ANOTHER IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME, THE DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR

LEUNG TOLD A PRESS ADMINISTRATION, (TUESDAY).

MR BOWEN

CONFERENCE

DISTRICT TODAY

MR LEUNG URGED

ALL

ELECTORS TO

EXERCISE THEIR

RIGHTS BY

CASTING THEIR VOTES ON THE POLLING DAY.

HE HOPED THAT THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE COULD EXCEED 37.5 PER CENT WHICH WAS RECORDED IN THE LAST DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS IN 1985.

493 OF

MR LEUNG SAID THAT A TOTAL NOMINATION TO STAND FOR THE ELECTIONS.

THE

CANDIDATES HAVE ACCEPTED

CLEAR THAT "THE MESSAGE IS

OF HONG PEOPLE PLEDGED THEIR SUPPORT TO THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME.

KONG HAVE

THEIR "IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE VOTERS TO SHOW IN A POSITIVE WAY

THOSE THEY WISH ΤΟ CONCERN FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR SUPPORT FOR REPRESENT THEM," MR LEUNG SAID.

OVER THE YEARS, HE SAID DISTRICT BOARDS HAD MADE A FINE OF ACHIEVEMENTS.

RECORD

"THEY

HAVE

ΤΟ THE COMMUNITY.

GOVERNMENT

HAVE THEY

OF PARTICIPATION

THE ALSO LOCAL

EFFECTIVELY REFLECTED

OF

LOCAL THE

DIRECT FOCAL POINT FOR THE

ASPIRATIONS AND CONCERNS PROVIDED A

RESIDENTS IN A WIDE RANGE OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

ACHIEVEMENTS

"WITH YEARS OF SOLID WORK AND DISTRICT BOARDS HAVE PROVEN THEIR WORTH AND THE COMMUNITY.

BEHIND DESERVE THE

THE THEM, SUPPORT OF

"REGISTERED ELECTORS SHOULD FULFIL THEIR BY TURNING OUT AT THE POLLS," MR LEUNG SAID.

CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY

THEIR VOTES

1.4 MILLION CAN CAST OF THE 1.6 MILLION ELECTORS, ON THE POLLING DAY. THE REMAINING 200,000 DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE SEATS IN THEIR CONSTITUENCIES ARE UNCONTESTED.

VOTING IS A SIMPLE

FEW

BECAUSE

PROCESS AND TAKES ONLY A

MINUTES, OFFICER AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE AND ELECTORAL AFFAIRS DIVISION, MR V.S. WAN,

EXPLAINING THE

VOT LNG

PROCEDURES

OF 292

AT

PRESS

CONFERENCE,

THE

THE POLLING STATIONS THROUGHOUT MR WAN SAID THAT A TOTAL TERRITORY WOULD BE OPEN FROM 7.30 AM TO 10.30 PM ON THE POLLING DAY.

THE DIVISION