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The department was also, with the assistance of the New Territories Administration and the Social Welfare Department, looking into the existing and anticipated needs of the New Territories for library facilities, he added.
On the formation of a Council for Physical Recreation, he said that the Recreation and Amenities Select Committee of the Urban Council had
studied in some depth the feasibility of creating a Physical Recreation Unit, with a controlling or advisory council or committee, to promote the greater and better use of existing public recreational facilities.
"The Select Committee agreed on its recommendations only last month, and I am now about to put these to Government," he said.
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