TNAG-1139-FCO40-1419-Quarterly-progress-reports-on-Hong-Kong-1982 — Page 128

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COMMUNITY INFORMATION (Cont'd)

Community Information (Cont'd)

(b) Mass survey on public attitudes towards general political, social & economic issues.

Purpose

(b) To identify basic public

attitudes on key issues with a view to providing a benchmark for subse- quent monitoring of public reaction towards major government pro- grammes.

Progress Made and Present Position

Next Quarter Target

PAT MELASZANhyia ..

pretation of the survey findings at HAIG and present findings to

(b) The report on the first (b) To discuss the inter-

survey on what people think about Government's performance generally has been completed and the survey findings are being interpreted.

Branches and departments for information/action.

CHINESE LANGUAGE

Translation of the Laws of Hong Kong

To translate the Lavs of Hong Kong which affect the public at large intc Chinese as recommended in the Third Report of the Chines Language Committee.

Consideration is being given to add a preface to each of the ordinances already translated before publishing. In addition,

4 ordinances related to the District Boards have also been translated and are now being printed.

To arrange for publication of the ordinances which have been translated and to con- tinue to translate ordi- nances which affect the public at large.

INFORMATION

Publicity on District Administration

(a) encouraging NT voters

To coordinate a major publi- This quarter aimed at city campaign on the imple- mentation of district administration, to eduate and stimulate interest amongst the public on the new concept of local ad- ministration and to prare the way for electoral registration and election

to vote on polling day i.e. 4th March. Major publicity efforts were made through the mass media to urge regis- tered electors to vote on polling day. The

To prepare for the urban DB election in September and in particular to educate the public about the election system during this quarter.

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