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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988

HE NOTED THAT WAH

FU WAS AN

INTERESTING

CONSTITUENCY

WITH

THREE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC CANDIDATES.

IT PREVIOUSLY HAD THE HIGHEST TURNOUT IN THE

URBAN AREA LAST

YEAR AND IT WAS RUNNING VERY WELL AGAIN THIS YEAR TOO, SIR DAVID SAID.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE, SAYS SDA

THE SECRETARY FOR

DISTRICT

MR ADMINISTRATION,

DONALD LIAO, DISTRICT BOARD ELECTION APPEALED TO REGISTERED VOTERS TO GO TO THE POLLING STATIONS AS SOON AS THEY FINISHED WORK TODAY.

SPEAKING AT A

AFTERNOON, PRESS BRIEFING THIS (THURSDAY)

PREVIOUS DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS MR LIAO NOTED THAT EXPERIENCE IN

THAT SHOWED

THE USUALLY

LARGEST NUMBER HELD IN 1982 AND 1985 ELECTORS VOTED IN THE FINAL TWO HOUR OF POLLING.

OF

LONG

NORTH HAD

HE NOTED THAT BY 4.30 PM KWỤN WONG, WONG TAI SIN AND YUEN HAD THE LARGEST VOTER TURNOUTS WHILE ISLANDS, SAI KUNG AND THE HIGHEST TURNOUT RATES.

SDA VISITS POLLING STATION

THE SECRETARY FOR

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO, THIS (THURSDAY) MORNING URGED ALL ELECTORS TO EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC RIGHTS BY CASTING THEIR VOTES.

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"I HOPE THAT THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE COULD EXCEED 37.5 PER CENT WHICH WAS RECORDED IN THE LAST DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS IN 1985,' MR LIAO SAID THIS DURING A VISIT TO A POLLING STATION IN HAPPY VALLEY.

AT 9.30 AM, 45,611 VOTERS HAD CAST THEIR VOTES. REPRESENTING 3.3 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF 1,401,690 REGISTERED VOTERS.

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