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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1990

TRANSFER OF RESTRICTED BANKING LICENCE

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THE COMMISSIONER OF BANKING ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY)

FINANCIAL SECRETARY HAS

GRANTED

HIS APPROVAL

THAT THE PURSUANT TO SECTION OF STATE BANK TO STATE STREET

42 OF THE BANKING ORDINANCE FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE LICENCE

LICENCE RESTRICTED STREET ASIA LIMITED AS A BANK AND TRUST COMPANY.

THE TRANSFER WILL TAKE EFFECT ON AUGUST 27, 1990.

AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS

YOUNGSTERS' SUPPORT FOR VOTER REGISTRATION SOUGHT

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HAVE YOUNGSTERS

BEEN URGED TO SUPPORT THE REGISTRATION EXERCISE BY ENCOURAGING THEIR RELATIVES SIGN UP.

VOTER ONGOING AND FRIENDS ΤΟ

OFFICER, MR (SYP) CLOSING HALL, SHEUNG

DISTRICT ACTING NORTH THE CALL WAS MADE BY THE PATRICK HO, AT THE DISTRICT'S SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMME CEREMONY HELD TODAY (FRIDAY) IN THE NORTH DISTRICT TOWN SHUI.

YEARS OLD,

"YOUTH UNDER 21

THOUGH NOT ELIGIBLE FOR BEING REGISTERED AS VOTERS, SHOULD STILL PAY ATTENTION TO COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, AND ACTIVELY ENCOURAGE THOSE ELIGIBLE TO REGISTER.

IN THE ELECTIONS

SHOULD THEY

COME FORWARD TO "AS FOR RESIDENTS AGED OVER 21, REGISTER SO THAT THEY CAN EXERCISE THEIR CIVIC RIGHT TO VOTE DISTRICT BOARDS, MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL NEXT YEAR," MR HO SAID.

"OUT OF THE 1.6 MILLION REGISTERED ELECTORS IN HONG KONG, 40,000 COME FROM THE NORTH DISTRICT," HE ADDED.

OVER

VOTER

REGISTRATION

DISTRICT INCLUDE HOUSEHOLD

REGISTRATION COUNTERS AT THE FANLING AND AND BUS PARADES.

PROMOTIONAL

VISITS,

IN

ACTIVITIES SETTING UP OF TEMPORARY STATIONS SHEUNG SHUI RAILWAY

THE

NORTH

REGISTRATION FORMS

ARE AVAILABLE

AT ALL DISTRICT

OFFICES,

HOUSING ESTATE OFFICES AND MAJOR BANKS.

TODAY'S CLOSING

CEREMONY WAS

FOLLOWED

BY A

VARIETY SHOW

PERFORMED BY SINGERS, A CHILDREN'S CHOIR AND AN ORIENTAL DANCE TROUPE.

FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN FRONTIER THE NORTH

ALSO OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY WERE THE

THE

POLICE MR

CHING-LEUNG;

ACTING OF HRUNG YEE KUK,

LIU DISTRICT COMMANDER, MR TSUI YIU-KWONG; AND THE CHAIRMAN OF DISTRICT SYP CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE, MR CHEUNG KUEN.

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