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the C.D.O.s are co-operating with the ward Members who I think have no complaints in this respect. Although Members have seemed willing
enough to change the boundaries to be the same as ours it has taken a long time to get
it done.
88.
In the Urban Council Annual Conventional
Debate, 1968, in response to a suggestion to this effect, I extended a general invitation to Members to attend meetings which C.D.0.s have regularly with officials and local leaders in
their Districts. It is too soon to say whether Members will all wish to participate.
89.
Towards the end of 1968 the Hawker
Policy Select Committee of the Urban Council requested me to set up District Hawker Consulta- tive Committees and an instruction to C.D.O.s to
this effect was issued in December. The
Committees will have no executive functions
but should provide a useful forum in which
officials and unofficials can meet to consider
the many local aspects of hawker problems.
90.
Individual Urban Council Members have
in some cases been frequent visitors to City District Offices and participants with C.D.O.s
in various local functions.
POLITICAL REPORTS & EMERGENCY ARRANGEMENTS
91.
The routine of political reporting consists in the collection of material for the
weekly note TOWN TALK. C.D.O.s themselves have a good deal more material than appears in the paper circulated outside the Department but TOWN TALK is kept short in the hope that it
will be read. Monthly reports, which werc originally envisaged, are not prepared.
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