THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988
GOVERNMENT ATTACHES GREAT IMPORTANCE TO DB'S
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THE DEPUTY CHIEF SECRETARY, MR JOHN CHAN, VISITED THE
THIS EARLIER CNTA HEADQUARTERS CO-ORDINATION CENTRE AT EVENING.
ELECTION (THURSDAY)
TOUR,
SPEAKING TO NEWSMEN AFTER THE GOVERNMENT HAD DONE WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE DONE FOR THE CURRENT DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AND WHETHER THEY WOULD EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS.
MR
CHAN SAID THAT IN MAKING ARRANGEMENTS IT WAS UP TO
THE
THE VOTERS
OF DECISIONS MADE SAID THAT THE THE PRESENT
DB
RATE,
CHAN MR TO DO WITH
REPLYING TO A QUESTION ON POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON THE TURNOUT IN THE WHITE PAPER
ANYTHING DECISIONS COULD NOT HAVE HAD ELECTIONS.
IMPORTANCE
TO THE
DB'S WHICH
THE GOVERNMENT ATTACHED GREAT FORMED A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR THREE-TIER SYSTEM, HE ADDED.
ELECTORS URGED TO EXERCISE CIVIC RIGHT BY VOTING
CASTING REGISTERED VOTERS SHOULD EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC RIGHT BY
ΤΟ ELECT THOSE WHO THEIR VOTES IN TODAY'S DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS
KOWLOON, CAN REPRESENT THEM, THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND MR T.H. CHAU, SAID.
SPEAKING AT A PRESS BRIEFING THIS (THURSDAY) MORNING,
ADMINISTRATION SAID VOTERS' SUPPORT WOULD ENABLE THE DISTRICT TO DEVELOP FURTHER.
HE CALLED ON ELECTORS TO CAST THEIR VOTES AS EARLY AS IN ORDER TO AVOID A LAST MINUTE RUSH IN THE EVENING.
MR CHAU SCHEME
POSSIBLE
HAD VOTERS
AT OUT
THE ACCORDING TO MR CHAU, 37,856
FIRST THREE HOURS OF POLLING STATIONS IN THE URBAN AREA DURING THE
PER CENT. POLLING REPRESENTING A TURNOUT RATE OF 4.2
TURNED
AMONG
10 THE
URBAN
DISTRICTS,
SOUTHERN
DISTRICT
HAD THE THE HIGHEST
HIGHEST TURNOUT RATE OF 5.4 PER CENT WHILE KWUN TONG HAD VOTER TURNOUT OF 6.984 PEOPLE.
THE REGIONAL
FOR SECRETARY
IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, TERRITORIES, MR MICHABL SUEN, SAID FOR THE FIRST THREE
OUT AT
POLLING THE ELECTORS REPRESENTING A TURNOUT RATE OF 6.5 PER CENT.
HAD TURNED
STATIONS
SAT KUNG HAD THE HIGHEST TURNOUT RATE OF 12.5 KWAI TSING HAD THE HIGHEST VOTER TURNOUT OF 5,864.
THE NEW HOURS, 31,768 IN THE AREA,
PER CENT
WHILE
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