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Club
AMBITIOUS SCHEME FOR CASTLE PEAK
DISTRICT
GOLF, TENNIS, FISHING, BOATING
AND FLOOD LIGHTING
What promises to be the biggest, and most up-to-date recreation park in the Colony is shortly to be open ed to the public at Tai Lam Chung (19 mile stone) on the Castle Peak Road in the New Territories
road,
WHEN one leaves Home and comea out Enst, a new world is unfolded, with strange scenes, different cus- toms, new work and particularly a climate very unlike that to which one has been used in Eng-
The stream which runs through the land. With this radical change
site in the centre will have to be of environment come new dangers
crossed. The natural sandy beds of the old stream will further pro- to our health and lives, frequently
vide excellent natural. bunkers and, revealing themselves when it is too
unlike the courses at Deep Water late, and there is a sudden hurried Facilities for all sports, includ Bay and at Happy Valley, the leave for Home, or a more perma-ing golf, tennis, lawn bowls, length of the stroke will be deter- nent residence. Very prevalent outcroquet, badmington, hiking, row-mined by the fight of the ball in ing, motor-boating, bathing and the air and not by the combined here are two forms of disease clay pigeon shooting, will be pro-flight and roll of the ball when which often come like a snake in vidod. An international club will striking the ground. This is due the grass they are mental and he formed occupying a large and to the sandy surface which will not physical debility, both very real and often disastrous. Why people modern pavilion right on the motor permit the ball to roll very much after reaching the ground at the "wear" so badly in this Colony is
end of its flight. Mr. Denis Hazell, The project, which is sponsored informed our representative that this a question which is not difficult
Whereas in places like hy the Outdoor Sports Equipment would greatly add to the interest Hanoi, in Indo-China, it is realis Company at Gloucester Building, is and accuracy of the game and tend
A sum of ed that East is East and West is private enterprise. West, no such philosophy is work over $30,000 has been raised and to raise the standard of the play- ed out in Hong Kong. We work will be spent in levelling the ers. The drives are up to 450 yarda in length and it is thought that the the same hours here as we do at ground, laying out a nine hole golf course will prove to be a most in- Home, often with much extension, course, preparing tennis courts and and then we wonder why so-and-s lawn bowls greens, etc., and the teresting one. The first tes is close was sent Home in a bad mental" purchasing of the necessary sports to the club house and the playing area extends over the entire area It is equipment.
of the site. even to be wondered why there are The Government have granted a so few cases of breakdown, for the thirty acre area at Tai Lam Chung old truism must be adhered to to the Outdoor Shorts, Equipment The tennis courts will be placed that "when in Rome do as the Company with permission to build | to the "right of the grounds and Romans do." The natives take the pavilion near the beach.
seven courts will be laid out at the the afternoons of the exceptionally
start. These will all be hard courts. hot days very quietly, and so save
Here again, the expert adviso their vitality, but we think that
The Outdoor Sports Company of Mr. Denis Hazell has been ac we know better than the Eastern- have long felt that a suitable and cepted and the placing of the ers and the East and ignore these adequate recreation park is needed courts will leave ample room for precautions, so paying heavy in the Colony, one-capable of eup- the players. The hard court sur- penalty in days to come. A local plying the needs of the many hun- face will be in exact accordance doctor, who has since retired, once dreds of sportsmen, especially golf with similar bard courts in Britain, advised his patients as follows: ers. Chinese sportsmen have taken being a mixture of sand and soil "Get up in the morning to work,to this game with keen enthusiasm with a little lime to bind the two rest in the heat of the day, and and the lack of facilities for these into a hard surface. This is roll- work again in the cool of the gentlemen has become a serious pro-ed and watered and when complet evening, and your life will be blem.
ed provides the very best and prolonged."
truest tennis court surface obtain able. This type of surface does not tire the feet like concrete nor does it kill the speed of the ball. Examples of this type of court sur- face have been laid down at the U.S.R.C. with success.
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"nervous" condition.
Local Clubs Crowded,
Tennis Courts.
Similarly, the clubs who cater for tennis, bowls and other sports have There is a school of thought in such a large membership on their the Colony, particularly amongst lists that the playera experience po the younger generation, which pro- little difficulty in participating in fesses to despise the sound advice the game of their particular pro that has been given about the dan- ferepce. Playing areas near town gers of exposure to the sun. There are few and far between and most are those who think that sunly they are cramped and under-tion of the China Light & Power glasses are not an essential for sized in proportion to the member Company to flood-light these courts those who are not born in the ship."
for night playing. Four well. East. They forget that the eyes of a Westerner are not pigmented
Appreciating this position the known local players had an experi-
It is hoped, with the co-opera-
to stand the glare of tropical suns Outdoor Sports Equipment Comence of this kind of play aboard and must, if they are to be kept pany drew up their plans for this the M.S. Empress of Britain in good order, be protected from recreation park in the New Ter- when in Hong Kong recently and the bright rays with which they itories and applied to the Govern- found it to be very agreeable. were never intended to contend. ment for their permission, who, in making the grant, thoroughly ag- There are, as any doctor will con- firm, a number of people in Kow-proved of the project. loon and Hong Kong suffering
Thirty Acres of Land,
Far From Gramped.
The tennis courts will be laid down with 25 féet ruh báck 'at each end and 15 feet boundary on each side.. A main court for tourna
from so-called migraine, which is The site of the recreation park, not true migraine, and from gick which covers an area of thirtyment and championships will be in, headaches, indigestion, irritability acres, is admirably situated in the centre with a run back of 30 and other peculiarities, such as scenle surroundings in a valley at feet and 15 feet boundary on each self-importance, which in the Far Tai Lam Chung Boy on the Castle side. A twelve foot blue screen East are merely the manifesta Peak Road and only 18 miles from will also be pliced at either end. tions of various forms of mild the Kowloon forry. The position A stand capable of accommodating "light stroke." Advice in these of the site is better explained as 1,000 spectators is to be erected with matters is often tresented by the lying in the area just before the room for the erection of another 'old timers" as much as by the last bridge on the motor rond lead stand of the same capacity.. young men who form the hattessing to Castle Peak. brigade," yet they have themsel- What with the opening of the
Hard Court Championships. ves often suffered so much from vehicular ferry service accessibility these mild infections, which are for those living in Hong Kong is championship of the Colony s000 It is hoped to hold a hard court very real, as to be unable to rea- an easy matter and the delightful after the club is opened and an son as they would had they lived drive afforded on the Castle Peak other championship for the Penin- in a temperate climate all their Hond renders the trip from the city cula as distinct from the Colony's lives. Living in the East has a un enjoyable one.
championships.
strong tendency to make us 'nar- Mesars. E. Mow Fung and Lionel The plans also provide for the row minded and we often live in Bruce Chuey, roanagers of the Out.
an exceptionally small wood of door Sports Equipment Company laying out of twelve enclosed band- our own making with a distorted are responsible for drawing up themington courts which will also be view of the world outside us. We plans for this sporting enterprise flood-lit if pomble.
are apt to arcer at sound advice and they have been assisted in their In the centre of the grounds four given after careful study and work by Mr. Denis H. Hazell, the rinks of lawn bowls will be laid thought, although this was also Far Eastern Director for Mesare, out with two croquet lawns nearby. truc of
men in the dim past. William Sykes Limited, and St. On the extreme left the clay pigeon Even in the time of Naaman, Andrew Golf Company, Ltd., who traps will be installed and this Captain of the hosts of the King has been co-opted as sporte adviser will prove popular with the local of Syria, the desire for methods to the achome.
game hunters in the off season...!! other than those which authority
advised were very prevalent. When
Elisha advised him to wash seven
The Grounds.
The plans of the playing fields times in the River Jordan and so i submitted to the Government indi-
• Nor is the recreation park only
| Bitfačtive "to sportsmen. The hik
ing facilities around this area are little exploited by local hikers and
be cleansed of his leprosy. his . cate very clearly how well the site some very scenic and enjoyable. Limerüiderică, Corsetries, etc. :| [wonada chauvinium made him has been infined van is to dialog walks can be mader dhe recreation
ery opt Are not Abans, and the very best results.
park and its accommodious clab Pharpár, rivers of Damascus, bet The golf cours has been given house will provides excellent ter than all the waters of Israel ? careful consideration and the nine rendezvous for many an afternoon Like most sceptics, he learnt the holes will extend over some Pen I walke truth painfully.
acres with many unique features
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