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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990

DON'T MISS OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE: RS

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THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN,

то IN

THE NOTIFY WONG TAI SIN REMINDED VOTERS TODAY (SUNDAY)

OF ADDRESS SO THAT REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE OF ANY CHANGE THEY CAN VOTE IN THEIR NEW CONSTITUENCIES.

HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF DISTRICT VOTER REGISTRATION FUN FAIR AT LOK FU SHOPPING CERTRE.

THE WONG TAI SIN

REDEVELOPMENTS IN TO VOTERS HAD MOVED

THE NEW

MR LAN NOTED THAT DUE TO LARGE SCALE DISTRICT IN RECENT YEARS, MANY REGISTERED PREMISES.

ΤΟ THESE PEOPLE TO WILL NOT MISS THE

"THEREFORE, I AM APPEALING ESPECIALLY REPORT ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS SO THAT THEY OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE IN THEIR NEW CONSTITUENCIES," HE SAID.

HE SAID ALTHOUGH THERE WERE ABOUT 40,000 PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 21.

CENT IN THIS

HAD AGE BRACKET AND 25 IN THE DISTRICT, ONLY 12 PER SIGNED UP AS VOTERS.

ENROL AS ELECTORS AND "YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO

OF ACTIVELY TAKE PART IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT

HE SAID. THE REPRESENTATIVE POLITICAL SYSTEM IN HONG KONG,

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LAN AS TO THE VOTER REGISTRATION SITUATION IN WONG TAI SIN, MR

HAD REGISTERED EVEN SAID 55 PER CENT OF THE 240,000 ELIGIBLE VOTERS BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN STARTED.

REGISTRATION

"WITH MORE THAN 20,000 COMPLETED RECENTLY, THIS FIGURE HAS LEAPT TO 63 PER CENT.

"I BELIEVE THAT WITH THE CONTINUED SUPPORT

11 HE SAID. MORE IMPRESSIVE RESULTS WILL BE ACHIEVED,

ITSELF

THE REGIONAL SECRETARY

COULD NOT

ENSURE THE

FORMS RETURNED

OF

LOCAL LEADERS,

THAT THE

GOVERNMENT

BY

REITERATED SUCCESS OF THE VOTER REGISTRATION RESIDENTS' ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

CAMPAIGN, WHICH LARGELY DEPENDED ON AND INVOLVEMENT.

EARLIER, MR LAN PRAISED

MEMBERS

BOARD AND OF THE DISTRICT IN ORGANISING THE FUN FAIR AREA COMMITTEES FOR THEIR JOINT EFFORT TODAY TO PROMOTE VOTER REGISTRATION AND CIVIC EDUCATION.

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY, THE WONG TAI SIN DISTRICT

ΤΟ ON RESIDENTS CHAIRMAN, DR MICHAEL LEE, ALSO CALLED ELECTORS.

UP SIGN

BOARD AS

OFFICE,

TODAY'S FUN FAIR WAS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE DISTRICT THE DISTRICT BOARD'S WORKING GROUP ON PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION AND THE DISTRICT'S 14 AREA COMMITTEES.

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