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with the problem as I am. Yes, the tidiness teams have been doing a tremendous amount to co-operate with the Urban Services Department in the control of hawkers in resettlement estates, but to go beyond what they are doing now I think it would be a physical impossibility. We will just have to wait until the Executive Council meet and decides to give us the staff and money and other resources we want.
MR. SALES: -Mr. Chairman, I was very serious in asking you whether crow bars are standard equipment for tidiness teams and I think it is a very serious matter that members of the staff of the depart- ment related to the Urban Council should use crow bars in dealing with the public.
CHAIRMAN:-Crow bars are used to deal with the huts.
MR. SALES: We are assured by Mrs. ELLIOTT that they are used for dealing with members of the public.
CHAIRMAN:-That is no criterion, Mr. SALES.
MR. SALES: -Has Mrs. ELLIOTT stated it is no criterion?
CHAIRMAN: --No.
(12) MR. HENRY H. L. HU asked the following question:-
Now this year's Urban Council Election is over, could the Chairman inform the Council has Government any inten- tion to enlarge the franchise for the future election of the Council? Many local people wish to vote but they have no right to do so.
THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL, replied as follows:-
The franchise is one of the many issues surrounding the future of the Urban Council on which Government's decision is awaited.
MR. HU:-Mr. Chairman, I congratulate you on the very simple answer to my question. May I ask you if the Government will decide this question in the near future?
be?
CHAIRMAN:-I would like to think so, Mr. Hu.
MR. HU:-You think so, Mr. Chairman. How near would that
CHAIRMAN:-I cannot be more specific.
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