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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1990

ASSOCIATION URGED TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING CALLED ON THE SHAN TAK TO CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

THE

SPEAKING AT THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF OFFICE-BEARERS OF

VOTERS REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, HE POINTED OUT THAT THE FORTHCOMING

PARTICIPATION, AND APPEALED TO THE DRIVE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC

AS VOTERS AND TO GET ASSOCIATION TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS TO REGISTER PREPARED FOR NEXT YEAR'S THREE ELECTIONS.

INVOLVEMENT IN

PROMOTION

HE PRAISED THE ASSOCIATION FOR ITS EFFORTS AND COMMUNITY BUILDING WORK, WHICH, HE NOTED, IS CRUCIAL TO THE OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION.

AND

"OUR SOCIETY NEEDS THE HELP AND PARTICIPATION BY RESIDENTS

CAN FACE UP ΤΟ COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS IN LOCAL AFFAIRS SO THAT WE THE CHANGES IN THE 1990'S," HE NOTED.

PRAISED THE

ASSOCIATION

FOR

PROVIDING VARIOUS EDUCATION, EMERGENCY

MR LAN ALSO BENEVOLENT SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING RELIEF, MEDICAL AIDS AND OTHER SOCIAL WELFARE ASSISTANCE TO THE NEEDY.

"IT HAS, THROUGH

PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NON-PROFIT-MAKING THAN 11,000 PLACES FOR STUDENTS ADDED.

SUBSIDISED

ALL FROM

COLLEGES, KINDERGARTENS, PROVIDED MORE

OVER THE

HE TERRITORY,"

CARNIVAL TO MARK RE-OPENING OF SILVERMINE BAY BEACH

A CARNIVAL, TO CELEBRATE THE RE-OPENING OF THE SILVERMINE

BEACH TOMORROW (SUNDAY) BEACH ON LANTAU ISLAND, WILL BE HELD AT THE MORNING.

BAY

WATER SPORTS ACTIVITIES AND FEATURING

HAS BEEN ORGANISED CARNIVAL EXERCISE, THE COMMITTEE AND OTHER LOCAL ORGANISATIONS.

A BEACH BY THE MUI

CLEANING WO RURAL

BEEN GREATLY IMPROVED, 1 THIS YEAR

AS THE WATER QUALITY OF THE BEACH HAS THE BEACH WAS DECLARED SUITABLE FOR SWIMMING FROM APRIL AFTER BEING CLOSED FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS.

LANDS, MR THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND

MISS JENNIFER BARNES, AND THE ACTING ISLANDS DISTRICT OFFICER, WILL OFFICIATE AT A CEREMONY WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 1.30 PM.

GRAHAM

CHAN,

/OTHER OFFICIATING