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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988

SDA CONGRATULATES SUCCESSFUL DB CANDIDATES

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DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE SECRETARY FOR TODAY (FRIDAY) CONGRATULATED THE 264 CANDIDATES WHO THE 1988 DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS, AND EXPRESSED HIS TO THE 101 NEW MEMBERS.

MR DONALD LIAO, WERE ELECTED IN SPECIAL WELCOME

BOARD

UP THE SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TO SUM

DISTRICT SAID OF THE 212 SERVING POLLING RESULTS, MR LIAO

DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WHO TOOK PART IN YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS, 163 WERE RETURNED.

"THIS PROVED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM.

WELL 30 ELECTORS ARE CASTING THEIR VOTES TO THOSE WHO HAVE PERFORMED AS TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, HE SAID.

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HE NOTED THAT THE COMPETITION THIS TIME WAS VERY KEEN. IN CASES, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF VOTES WAS VERY SMALL.

SOME

59 THE AGE OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WAS YOUNGER THIS YEAR WITH

55.7 PER CENT IN PER CENT BEING UNDER THE AGE OF 40, AS COMPARED TO THE 1985 ELECTIONS, HE SAID.

BACKGROUND WAS

HIGHER TAIS

NOTED,

THE EDUCATION

HE TIME, ADDING THAT NEARLY 40 PER CENT OF THOSE ELECTED WERE EITHER UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE GRADUATES, AS COMPARED WITH 31.7 PER TIME.

CENT LAST

THIS

TIME AND

IN

THE

1985

MR LIAO POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE MORE WOMEN

COMPARED

17 WITH 27 WOMEN CANDIDATES WERE ELECTED AS ELECTIONS. SUCCESSFUL MALE CANDIDATES NUMBERED 237.

AS FOR

BACKGROUND, PROFESSIONAL

HE SAID

THERE

WERE

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AND

EXECUTIVES, 51 BUSINESSMEN, 40 EDUCATIONALISTS, 39 SOCIAL WORKERS 36 OTHER PROFESSIONALS.

MR

THE APPOINTMENT

SAID LIAO

THAT ALTHOUGH THE ELECTIONS HAD JUST BEEN BE BUSY COMPLETED, THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION WOULD IN PREPARING FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

OF DISTRICT APPOINTED MEMBERS WOULD HAVE TO BOARD MEMBERS AS THE LIST OF ANNOUNCED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH.

BE

AFTER THAT THE VARIOUS DISTRICT OFFICES WOULD BE ASSISTING NEW DISTRICT BOARDS TO ARRANGE THEIR FIRST MEETINGS, DURING WHICH CHAIRMEN WOULD BE ELECTED, HE SAID.

THE

THE

CONCLUDING THE PRESS CONFERENCE, MR LIAO TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONVEY HIS BEST WISHES TO ALL. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AND HOPED THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO CARRY OUT THEIR WORK BETTER DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

THAT

SMOOTHLY

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ENHANCE THE

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