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CULTURAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
47. This account cannot possibly include all the major
fields of Government activity. But I do wish to mention
the administration of cultural and leisure activities,
because it is a whole new and important field of
Government activity. Though it has been deliberately
stimulated by the Government, Urban Council and voluntary
agencies, the scale and speed of development is
extraordinary.
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48. The Hong Kong Philharmonic has now taken its
rightful place as Hong Kong's orchestra, there is
an excellent and popular Chinese Orchestra, dance and
ballet groups are of a high standard, and we are
developing a fine Youth Orchestra.
49.
We have each year an International Hong Kong Arts
Festival, a Festival of Asian Arts, and usually a Film
Festival. A week seldom passes without an opportunity
to see or hear something of high artistic merit.
50. The Arts Cent re has proved an immediate success.
Indeed all available auditoria are so heavily booked, that
it is just as well that in the period under review the
new cultural complex at Tsim Sha Tsui will be completed
and three new large City Halls and two small ones wi 11
be completed in the New Territories.