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51. In a different and more muscular field a wide
variety of sports are supported through the Council
for Recreation and Sport: the Government has gone
into partnership with the Royal Hong Kong Jockey
Club over establishing a very large Jubilee Sports
Centre: a Recreation and Sports Service has been
formed which organises diverse forms of recreation
for at least 30,000 people of all ages a month
and supplements and assists the work of voluntary
agencies and local groups in catering for much larger
numbers. There are a large number of "ecreational
facilities unde" construction and in this the Urban
Council is doing particularly good work, but just
to take one example there are now eleven swimming
pool complexes in use, a further two under construction,
and twenty more are planned for completion before
1984/85 of which half will be in the New Territories.
.52. Then there is the new Country Parks Authority with
responsibility for care and development for recreation
of about 200 square miles of mountain, valley and beach,
which it is expected will be visited by anything up to
100,000 people on any weekend of good weather.
53.
Some of these diverse activities supported by
public funds have existed for some time, but most have
not and in any case the scale of activity has changed