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Appendix I

HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL

URBAN COUNCIL

STATEMENT OF AIMS FOR 1978-79

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Administration

(a) To keep under review all aspects of administration, staff establishment and training.

(b) To promote research into, and suggest improvements for, equipment, services and facilities.

(c) To provide the fullest possible information to the public on Council policies and activities; to maintain an effective relationship with the news media and to co-ordinate publicity on behalf of the Council.

(d) To ensure that Council is properly identified with all activities it promotes, sponsors or supports.

(e) To co-ordinate Council policy on publications on Council activities, as well as to ensure an acceptable format and presentation of Council publications.

(f) To promote public exhibitions and to foster interest in all areas of Council activity.

(g) To promote overseas visits for the benefit of the Council.

(h) To keep under review the measures needed for the control of advertising signs, including bills and posters on private land.

(i) To approve the names of all thoroughfares in the urban areas.

Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Parlours

(a) Cemeteries

(i) To ensure optimum usage of existing cemetery land by exhuming deserted graves.

(ii) To improve the amenities and facilities in public cemeteries.

(iii) To exercise control over the management of private cemeteries.

(iv) To keep under review legislation for the control of public and private cemeteries.

(b) Crematoria

(i) To encourage and promote cremation.

(ii) To provide additional columbaria at the Cape Collinson Crematorium.

(iii) To press for the early reprovisioning of the Diamond Hill Crematorium.

(c) Funeral Parlours

(i) To reprovision the Oil Street Funeral Depot.

(ii) To press for the early allocation of funeral parlour sites for future development.

(iii) To provide a dignified and inexpensive funeral service for the public at the Hung Hom Public Funeral Hall.

Cultural Complex and Indoor Stadia

(a) General

(i) To work towards the completion of the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Complex as follows:-

(1) Auditoria: 1982-83

(2) Arts Library and Administration Block: 1981-82

(3) Museum Block: 1982-83

(ii) To complete the Space Museum and to prepare for its opening in early 1979;

(iii) To complete the Queen Elizabeth Stadium at Morrison Hill and to prepare for its opening in late 1979;

(iv) To work towards the completion of the Hung Hom Indoor Stadium by late 1980.

(b) Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Complex

(i) To continue the detailed planning of the facilities in the Cultural Complex;

(ii) To commence detailed planning of the management and operation of the various buildings of the Cultural Complex;

(iii) To create the necessary staff establishment for the detailed planning work.

(c) Space Museum

(i) To create the necessary staff establishment for the management and operation of the Space Museum;

(ii) To arrange suitable training for such staff;

(iii) To prepare exhibition and programme material;

(iv) To draw up policies and regulations for the operation of the Space Museum.

(d) Queen Elizabeth Stadium at Morrison Hill

(i) To continue the detailed planning for the facilities and equipment in the Stadium to meet international standards;

(ii) To commence planning of spectator sport and mass entertainment programmes involving both local and overseas groups;

(iii) To create the necessary staff establishment for the management and operation of the Stadium;

(iv) To arrange suitable training for such staff;

(v) To draw up policies and regulations for the operation of the Stadium.

(e) Indoor Stadium at Hung Hom

(i) To continue the detailed planning for the facilities and equipment in the Stadium to meet international standards;

(ii) To commence detailed planning of the management and operation of the Stadium;

(iii) To commence planning of spectator sport and mass entertainment programmes involving both local and overseas groups;

(iv) To create the necessary staff establishment for the detailed planning work.

4. City Hall and Entertainments

(a) City Hall

(i) To promote the City Hall as the cultural centre of Hong Kong by means of suitable publicity on the wide range of cultural functions taking place at the City Hall;

(ii) To improve the existing facilities and services in the City Hall;

(iii) To encourage the presentation of cultural programmes of a high standard and a wide variety by local cultural organizations;