In order to promote public awareness of the importance of protecting and preserving Victoria Harbour and to encourage public participation in our ‘Save Our Harbour’ Campaign, our Society has decided to conduct a ‘Dollar For Dollar’ Fund-Raising Campaign on the basis that every dollor donated by the public will be met by an equal amount of donation from our Chairman Winston Ka Sun Chu and his personal resources up to a limit of $3,000,000.00.
The funds raised will be used for the following purposes:-
1. To finance the present litigation undertaken by our Society including:
(a) The Appeal launched by the Town Planning Board to the Court of Final Appeal against the Judgment of the High Court in favour of our Society over the Wanchai Reclamation.
(b) Any legal action that our Society may have to undertake to stop the Central Reclamation works now being carried on by the Government; and
(c) Any other legal action that may be necessary to enforce the Protection of the Harbour Ordinance.
NOTE: In order to avoid any possible conflict of interests, such fund will only be used for payment of counsel’s fees and disbursements and none of the fund will be used to pay the legal costs of Messrs. Winston Chu & Company.
2. To promote the ‘Friends of the Harbour’ Campaign which the Society will be conducting in order to attract greater public interest and public participation in the work of our Society to protect and promote the Harbour
3. Any other work of our Society for the protection and preservation of the Harbour.
A special bank account will be used to keep a clear record of public donations. The Senior Partners of our legal advisers Messrs. Winston Chu & Company, Mr. Benjamin Chang and Mr. Jeff Tse have agreed to oversee this bank account to ensure that the funds raised will be properly used and accounted for and that accounts will be available for public scrutiny.
A number of friends including the following have kindly promised to help our Society to launch this Fund-Raising Campaign and to answer questions from the news media.
Date: Monday 22nd September 2003 at 12:30 p.m.
Place: China Building, (opposite Entertainment Building), Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.
Mr. Albert Cheng 鄭經翰
Dr. the Honourable Yeung Sum 楊森
The Honourable Choy So Yuk 蔡素玉
The Honourable Abraham SHEK Lai-him 石禮謙
The Honourable Cyd Ho Sau Lan 何秀蘭
As our Society is an incorporated charity, all donations will be entitled to tax deduction. Our Society’s Bank Account is HSBC 004-593-281314-001.
Posted by RealityMaster at September 22, 2003 05:53 PM