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SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1989

BUILT WITH A DONATION OF $350,000 JOCKEY CLUB, THE CENTRE IS THE RESULT OF MARICULTURISTS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONCERNED, SHE NOTED.

FROM THE ROYAL HONG KONG CONSULTATIONS HELD BETWEEN AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

DISTRICT MISS CHOW ADDED THAT THE

OFFICE WAS ASSISTING THE ΤΟ

CENTRE IN ITS APPLICATION FOR FUNDS FROM THE SIR DAVID TRENCH FUND PURCHASE RECREATION FACILITIES.

THE TWO-STOREY CENTRE HAS

A

AREA FLOOR

OF

70 SOME

SQUARE

METRES.

THE OPENING CEREMONY WAS FOLLOWED BY A DRAGON THE CENTRE.

BOAT RACE NEAR

AREA COMMITTEES PROVIDE TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION

* * *

TO BE EFFECTIVE IN AREA COMMITTEES ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED

AN INVALUABLE TWO-WAY PROMOTING A COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND IN PROVIDING CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL RESIDENTS.

FOR THIS WAS STATED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE REGIONAL SECRETARY

CLOSER" SEMINAR FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, AT A "STEP ARBA COMMITTEES IN WAN CHAI.

THE THEME OF THE SEMINAR WAS COMMITTEES AND THE DISTRICT BOARD"

•

BETWEEN "RELATIONSHIP THE

AREA

AREA COMMITTEES

MAINTAINED ALSO

CLOSE

LINKS WITH

DISTRICT

BOARDS MAINLY THROUGH CROSS-MEMBERSHIP, MR LAN POINTED OUT.

TC

ON DB ON

SERVE CO-OPTED OFTEN LOCAL INPUT INTO DELIBERATIONS

"AREA COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTEES AND PROVIDE VALUABLE LOCAL MATTERS.

APPOINTED TO SERVP "AT THE SAME TIME, ELECTED DB MEMBERS ARE

AND THEY RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCIES ON THE AREA COMMITTEES OF THEIR

WHERE HAVE HELPED REFER AREA PROBLEMS TO DB'S NECESSARY,' HE SAID.

"

AND

THEIR COMMITTEES

THE YEARS AREA

COMMITTEES

MR LAN POINTED OUT THAT OVER EVOLVED INTO AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE COMMUNITY BUILDING MACHINERY FOCAL POINTS FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION AT THE AREA LEVEL.

HAD

AND

"APART

COMMITTEES

BROADENED HAVE DISCUSS AREA PROBLEMS,

GOVERNMENT POLICIES," HE SAID.

PROMOTING FROM

CAMPAIGNS

AND RECREATION,

THEIR DISTRICT

CONCERNS MATTERS AND

CONSIDERABLY

AND

SOMETIMES

AREA OFTEN GENERAL

THE SEMINAR