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focus on the needs of each district, and will do so in the light of
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the views of the representatives of each district. It should make
Government less faceless and more accessible and responsive.
also provide a new opportunity to play a part in administration to
large numbers of people.
THE ARTS AND RECREATION
152. The arts, sport and recreation, and the organised use of
leisure all contribute to the building of complete and cohesive
communities. These have made extraordinary progress under the
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encouragement of the Urban Council, the Government, the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Council for Recreation and Sports, the Country Parks Authority, the Sports and Recreation Service and the Music Office, and many private bodies, and of course with the enthusiastic support of the public for which these developments clearly
fill a long-felt need. In the artistic field development of performing
arts has far out-stripped existing capacity for practice, instruction,
storage and administration.
Jockey Club to build a new Academy of the Performing Arts is most timely.
It is a happy coincidence that a site is available next to the Arts
Centre, now the subject of a feasibility study. With the prospect of
the Tsimshatsui Cultural Complex, and new Town Hall at Tuen Mun and
Shatin all due to be completed by early 1985, added to the Tsuen Wan
Town Hall and the large air-conditioned halls already in use in Yuen
Long and Sheung Shui, local artists can count on ample opportunity to
perform to Hong Kong audiences.
So the proposal of the Royal Hong Kong
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