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Wednesday, October 17, 1973
The Council will also include within its purview the five-year
Programme of Recreational Development and Nature Conservation, which
was announced last year and which is now proceeding from the stage of
planning to construction.
The Governor noted that facilities for recreation, leisure and
sport "have taken on a new and urgent significance," as a result of
rising standards of living and increased leisure time. They were no
longer luxuries but essential parts of Hong Kong's social infrastructure.
"It is therefore essential that properly equipped recreational
areas be opened up in the mountains and beaches that surround the city,
with proper road access, and staff to keep them clean and attractive and
to help the public to do so, and thus ensure that everyone gets the
maximum enjoyment out of them," he said.
"The mountains and the beaches are for the many what the golf
course and the yacht are for the few. And if these magnificent natural
facilities are to be enjoyed to the full and not to be destroyed by
misuse, they must be catered for and administered just as much as,
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the playgrounds and swimming complexes in the urban areas."
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