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Monday, March 12, 1973
CONSERVATION PROBLEMS TO BE STUDIED
In Conjunction With Tree Planting And Tending
EXEL
During the next seven weeks 610 students of the three colleges of
education will study conservation problems caused by fire, erosion and litter.
This study is included in the programme arranged jointly by the
Agriculture and Fisheries Department and the Education Department.
The programme, designed to give students a keener appreciation of
the values of the countryside, will give the students an opportunity to spend
a day on the hills at the top of Route TWISK to carry out tree planting and
tending operations.
For tree planting, the students will work in the morning in parties
of mixed groups of 12, each under the direction of experienced foresters.
In the afternoon, the girls will do the weeding and fertilizing of
last year's plantation while the boys will do the pruning and thinning at
Chuen Lung.
Before going on their outings, the students will attend illustrated
talks on "countryside management" given by officers of the Conservation and
Forests Division of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department.
Tomorrow (Tuesday), 170 first year students of the Grantham College
will listen to the talks which will be repeated on March 21 for 200 Sir Robert
Black College students, and on April 10 for 240 Northcote College students.
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