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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1989

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EXPENDITURE ON MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS

ON PUBLICISING THE

THE GOVERNMENT HAD SPENT ABOUT $1 MILLION MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN 1986 AND $0.86 MILLION IN 1989.

RONALD CHOW IN IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON

CHIEF SECRETARY, THE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE

THE THAT

LOWER EXPENDITURE RESULTED HON SIR DAVID FORD, EXPLAINED

OF ELIMINATION

ACTIVITIES

HAD MAINLY FROM THE

PROVED LESS SAVING EFFECTIVE, SUCH AS VARIETY SHOWS. AND THE INTRODUCTION OF COST MEASURES, FOR EXAMPLE IN STANDARDISING PUBLICITY MATERIAL.

THAT

79 IN INCREASED PUBLICITY

CANDIDATES REDUCED FROM 79 "IN ADDITION, THE NUMBERS OF 1986 TO 53 IN 1989, WHILE THE NUMBERS OF UNCONTESTED SEATS THE EFFECT OF LOWERING FROM TWO TO SEVEN. THIS ALSO HAD COSTS TO SOME EXTENT," SIR DAVID SAID.

HE POINTED OUT THAT IN PRACTICE, THE QUALITY AND WERE VERY SIMILAR THE GOVERNMENT'S PUBLICITY EFFORTS PROVIDED IN 1986.

INTENSITY OF то WHAT WAS

BOARD ELECTIONS IN EXPENDITURE ON PUBLICITY FOR THE DISTRICT

THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED MARCH 1988 WAS $1.43 MILLION. HOWEVER,

THE MUNICIPAL OUT THAT IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE TO MAKE COMPARISONS WITH

THE FAR GREATER COUNCIL ELECTIONS GIVEN

NUMBER OF CONSTITUENCIES

INVOLVED.

ON PUBLICITY

TO

PARTICIPATION

IT WAS ARRANGED

IN

THE

ELECTORS' ENCOURAGE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN 1989, SIR DAVID SAID ON BOTH A TERRITORY-WIDE AND A DISTRICT BASIS.

IT

INCLUDED

DISTRICT RESIDENTS.

NEWSPAPERS.

ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE MASS MEDIA,

PUBLIC PLACES, SPECIAL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY BANNERS IN

FOR CANDIDATES'

DISPLAY OF ISSUES OF

AND ARRANGEMENTS

ΤΟ

MEET

LEAFLETS PROVIDING INFORMATION ON POLLING CANDIDATES WERE MAILED TO REGISTERED ELECTORS, IN POLL CARDS.

PROCEDURES AND THE ADDITION TO THEIR

"GOVERNMENT'S

PUBLICITY EFFORTS WERE COMPLEMENTED BY MASS

ELECTIONS AND THE CANDIDATES ' OWN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE

ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.

IN THIS YEAR'S MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

IN CARDS WERE SENT TO ELECTORS LIVING AND 30,710 WERE RETURNED UNDELIVERED.

POLL

ELECTIONS, 1,211,109 THE CONTESTED CONSTITUENCIES

"CHANGE OF ADDRESS WAS NOT THEREFORE A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE

то VOTER TURNOUT. NEVERTHELESS, GOVERNMENT CONTINUES

REPORT

CHANGES

가

IN

LOW

SO ADDRESS.

ENCOURAGE THAT

THE

ELECTORS TO REGISTERED ELECTORAL ROLL CAN BE KEPT UP TO DATE. HE REMARKED.

/SIR DAVID