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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1991

"THERE ARE AS OF TODAY A TOTAL OF 254 INSURANCE COMPANIES AUTHORISED IN HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

THE MANULIFE TOWER IS USED BY LEADING CANADIAN INSURANCE COMPANY, MANULIFE FINANCIAL, AS ITS NEW PACIFIC ASIA REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS.

RESIDENTS URGED TO SUPPORT MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND LEGCO ELECTIONS

THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, TODAY (TUESDAY) URGED RESIDENTS TO FULFIL THEIR CIVIC BY TAKING PART IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ON SUNDAY

RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN SEPTEMBER.

(MAY 5)

OF

KOWLOON BEARING ON THE

SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB EAST, MR LAN SAID THE TWO ELECTIONS HAD AN IMPORTANT WELL-BEING OF OUR SOCIETY.

HE NOTED THAT THE URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCILS WERE FOR FORMULATING MUNICIPAL POLICIES WHICH OUR DAILY LIVES.

RESPONSIBLE

RELATED WITH

WERE CLOSELY

MR LAN CALLED ON NOT REGISTERED AS

AS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS, PERMANENT RESIDENTS AGED 21 AND ABOVE WHO HAD ELECTORS TO DO SO BY JULY 1.

HONG LAY

"THE ELECTIONS NOT ONLY SIGNIFY AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN KONG'S DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS AN OPEN ADMINISTRATION, THEY ALSO HELP A SOUND FOUNDATION FOR HONG KONG PEOPLE RULING HONG KONG'," HE SAID.

MR LAN ALSO CALLED ON VOTERS TO REPORT ANY TO THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTORAL OFFICE SO AS NOT TO MISS THE

CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF CASTING THEIR VOTES IN THE NEW CONSTITUENCY THEY NOW LIVED IN.

THE REGIONAL SECRETARY STRESSED THAT THE HARMONIOUS SOCIETY REQUIRED THE JOINT EFFORTS OF ITS PEOPLE.

BE

THE

CHANCE

BUILDING OF A GOVERNMENT AND

TO CONTINUE TO PROSPERITY, THEIR

HE NOTED THAT IF RESIDENTS WANTED THE SOCIETY PROSPEROUS AND то SHARE THE FRUITS OF PARTICIPATION IN ITS AFFAIRS WAS INDISPENSABLE.

"THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC HELP DEVELOP THE POLITICAL SYSTEM," HE SAID.

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RESPONSIBILITY ΤΟ

SERVICES IN HONG

EARLIER, MR LAN OUTLINED THE VARIOUS SOCIAL KONG IN THE PAST 20 YEARS AND THEIR LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

/HE SAID