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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9,

1990

YOUTH INVOLVEMENT CRUCIAL TO TERRITORY'S FUTURE

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HONG KONG

LARGE POOL OF A BETTER

IS ANTICIPATED IF ITS

INTO MORE ACTIVE COMMUNITY TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE CAN BE CHANNELLED

KOWLOON, MR DAVID INVOLVEMENT, REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND LAN, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

THE WORLD

MR LAN MADE THIS REMARK WHEN MEETING THE JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MR JORGE SUNCAR, WHO IS HONG KONG ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT.

REASON,

MR

LAN SAID,

THE

PRESIDENT OF CURRENTLY IN

GOVERNMENT'S

IMMEDIATE

FOR THIS CONCERN WAS TO ENCOURAGE ELIGIBLE VOTERS, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER ONES, TO ENROLL.

GOVERNMENT

INSTITUTES

WILL OFFICIALS

WHERE YOUNG HE SAID, ADDING THAT

VISIT PEOPLE

MORE

"AND, IN THIS CONNECTION, PLACES SUCH AS LIBRARIES AND EVENING ARE PREDOMINANT TO ENCOURAGE REGISTRATION, EMPHASIS WOULD BE PLACED ON CIVIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTHS.

EARLIER THE

PART

HAD EMPHASIS

OF EMPHASIS BEEN

THE

THAT IN MR LAN ALSO POINTED OUT THAT CAMPAIGN CONDUCTED FROM MID-AUGUST TO THE END OF LAST MONTH, HAD BEEN PLACED ON HOUSE VISITS BUT CHANGED TOWARDS OTHER DIRECTIONS.

NOW, THE

THE HONG KONG JUNIOR THE REGIONAL SECRETARY WENT ON TO URGE

SOON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO RALLY THEIR MEMBERS TO GO AND REGISTER AS AS POSSIBLE.

PER CENT

OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION TURNING TO CRITICISMS ON THE LACK OF LOCAL YOUTHS, MR LAN SAID THIS WAS NOT AT ALL FAIR AS 32 OF DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WERE AGED 40 OR BELOW.

HOWEVER, HE ADMITTED THAT HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT INVOLVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 21 AND 25.

THE

LACK OF

A 12 PER CENT . THE VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE IN 1987 SHOWS

COMPARED WITH A TERRITORIAL REGISTRATION RATE FOR THIS AGE OVERALL OF 44 PER CENT.

GROUP,

PERFECT.

ARE ALWAYS LOOKING

HE SAID,

FOR

WE "OF COURSE, NOTHING IS PLACES WHERE FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS CAN BE MADE,

MR LAN NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD MUCH JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN ITS IDEAL, THAT IS, THROUGH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTS.

WHILE APPRECIATING

TO SHARE WITH THE DEVELOPING ONESELF

THE JAYCEE'S EFFORTS TO

AFFAIRS, COMMUNITY PEOPLE TO PLAY A GREATER ROLE IN WOULD CONTINUE WITH THE GOOD WORK IN THE YEARS AHEAD.

ENCOURAGE YOUNG

HE HOPED

THEY

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