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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1989

NORTH DISTRICT RESIDENTS URGED TO REGISTER AS VOTERS

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TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TO BE ELECTORS CURRENT VOTER

THE NORTH DISTRICT OFFICER, MR WILLIAM HUI, CALLED ON RESIDENTS IN THE DISTRICT WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC RIGHT BY SIGNING UP DURING THE REGISTRATION DRIVE.

CIVIC EDUCATION

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE NORTH DISTRICT

A POTENTIAL ELECTORATE OF EXHIBITION, MR HUI SAID THE DISTRICT HAD

OF OUT OF A ALREADY REGISTERED,

POPULATION 99,500, WITH 157.500.

43,800

HONG ANYONE AGED 21 OR ABOVE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, WHO IS A

SEVEN YEARS, KONG PERMANENT RESIDENT OR HAS RESIDED IN HONG KONG FOR IS ELIGIBLE FOR REGISTRATION, HE POINTED OUT.

THE VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE BEGAN ON LAST UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30.

HALL

IN

MR

AUGUST 15 AND WILL

HUI SAID

EXHIBITION AT THE WAS ITS AIM

REFERRING TO THE THREE-DAY CIVIC EDUCATION

FANLING, CHEUNG WAH COMMUNITY TWO-FOLD.

"IT NOT ONLY PROMOTES

CIVIC

AWARENESS AMONG

ALSO FOSTERS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, AND A SENSE OF THE DISTRICT, HE SAID.

T

BUT RESIDENTS,

BELONGING TO,

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE SOCIAL ETHICS, DEMOCRACY, THE BASIC LAW, CIVIC RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

"ANOTHER DISPLAY

ON FOCUSSES ITEM

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE NORTH DISTRICT," MR HUI ADDED.

THE

EXHIBITION

HAS

BEEN

ORGANISED

BY

THE NORTH

DISTRICT

OF

THE

EDUCATION, STEERING COMMITTEE KIN-WING.

COMMITTEE ON

AND CHAIRMAN MR MAK HOI-WAH;

OF ON THE PROMOTION

STEERING COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION,

ALSO OFFICIATING AT TODAY'S OPENING

CEREMONY WERE THE NORTH

DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR RAYMOND PANG; CHAIRMAN PARTICIPATION GROUP

OF THE

COMMUNITY

THE

OF CIVIC

OF PROMOTION

CIVIC

THE NORTH

DISTRICT

EDUCATION,

MR LAU

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