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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988

CONCERN OVER ROLE OF NEW POLICY BRANCH

章

THE

WOULD CULTURE

PROPOSED NEW POLICY ENCROACH UPON THE

THE URBAN COUNCIL IS CONCERNED THAT BRANCH FOR SPORTS, RECREATION AND JURISDICTION OF THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS.

BY THE URBAN

COUNCIL CONSTITUENCY'S TU, IN THE

THE CONCERN WAS VOICED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE HON ELSIE POLICY DEBATE TODAY (THURSDAY).

THAT IF THE COUNCIL THE NEW POLICY

ONE OF THE FEARS, MRS TU SAID, WAS PERFORMING ARTS, IN CO-ORDINATION WITH GOING TO MOVE FORWARD ON THE ARTS FRONT, IT WOULD BE

WORK ALREADY ONLY AT THE COUNCILS.

EXPENSE OF

THE

DONE

FOR BRANCH, WAS ABLE TO DO 90 BY THE MUNICIPAL

IN

A

A

SHE ALSO SAID GOVERNMENT-COMMISSIONED CONSULTANCY REPORT ENTITLED "THE WAY AHEAD:

THAT SOME

OF

THE PROPOSALS

ON SPORT

IN

HONG KONG"

MIGHT WELL

ΤΟ

LBAD CONSULTANCY REPORT UNHEALTHY COMPETITION BETWEEN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND THE STATUTORY BODY ON SPORTS WHICH THE CONSULTANT PROPOSED.

ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN RELATED TO PRIVATE SPONSORSHIP.

SPONSORSHIP FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR,

ALTHOUGH AVAILABLE, WAS

NOT UNLIMITED.

BUT IF SEVERAL BODIES, INCLUDING THE PROPOSED SET OUT TO TAP THE SAME RESOURCES OF FUNDING, THEY COMPETITION AGAINST ONE ANOTHER.

STATUTORY BODY, WOULD BE SET IN

THAT WOULD NOT BE IN THE INTERESTS OF SERVICE

то THE PUBLIC,

SHE SAID.

MRS TU ALSO GAVE APPOINTED BODIES.

A

WARNING ON THE GROWTH

OF

STATUTORY

THE

GOVERNMENT

ΤΟ

CLAIMS "WHILST

PROMOTING BE

GREATER STATUTORY APPOINTED BODIES DEMOCRACY ON THE ONE HAND, THE GROWTH OF

TO UNDERMINE LIKELY

THE POWERS OF THE APPEARS ON THE OTHER HAND

rl SHE SAID. LARGELY ELECTED MUNICIPAL COUNCILS,

THE

UNLESS THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS WERE CONSULTED AT ALL

RELATING PROPOSALS

TO GOVERNMENT CONCERNING NEW

BETWEEN CONFRONTATION RECREATION AND SPORTS, UNNECESSARY GOVERNMENT AND THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS MIGHT ARISE, SHE ADDED.

STAGES BY

CULTURE,

THE

"MAY WAR.

I OWE A DEBT TO WHILE LIVING

EX-PRISONERS OF MRS TU ALSO MENTION, AS REMEMBRANCE DAY APPROACHES, THAT WE ALSO

WAR,

FORGET THE THE ELDERLY

REFERRED TO THE

LEST WE

SHE SAID.

OF PRISONERS

HONOURING THE DEAD OF WORLD WAR II +

FOUND IT HARD COULD NOT

ON THE WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY, MRS TU SAID SHE TO BELIEVE THAT HONG KONG COULD NOT TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

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