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Education

Culture and Recreation Housing

Medical and Health Social Services

Trade and Industry

Environmental Improvement

Having been elected from the Urban Council

constituency, I shall be actively interested in all matters

for which the Urban Council has responsibility such as

public hygiene, recreation and culture.

In cooperation with Government, the Urban Council

hopes to see the completion of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre

opposite the Peninsula Hotel by 1989.

I might add that in many ways, the Urban Council's

work, especially in the cultural and public hygiene fields,

contribute to the development of tourism, an industry which

is very much part of Hong Kong's economic success.

While Hong Kong has generally a good reputation in

maintaining law and order, the recent disclosure by the Police

that triads are a growing menace leaves one wondering whether

the problem is one which requires enactment of more stringent

legislation, or more vigorous action on the part of the

Police, or of stronger grass-roots anti-crime support at the

area committee level, or a combination of these and other

factors, and closer coordination all round.

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