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Wednesday, October 16, 1974
One of its first steps was to recommend that District
Recreation Officers should be appointed whose duty it would be
to encourage and advise on how to maximise recreational
facilities in each district, and also to encourage the use
of the country-side by people of the city. A pilot scheme
for 5 City Districts and for Yuen Long is now in operation.
The Council has done much ad học work greatly.
helped by generous private donations.
For instance in the
urban areas and the New Territories something of the order:
of 190 concrete ping pong tables, volley ball and basket
ball pitches have been ordered or are in process of construction,
along with a considerable volume of equipment. Funds have
also been channelled through the Council for the expansion of
activities in various standing camps, or the construction of
now onoc, that will rosult in supervised week-ends in the
country for at least 15,000 more young people next year. In
addition plans of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
for providing countryside amenities are now beginning to
make real progress: 60 new picnic sites came into commission
last year, with an accompanying infrastructure of 5 miles
of paths, and 30 more sites will be completed in the coming
year. If I might say so they have been built and equipped
with notable imagination and good taste and they have performed
their function of attracting many more visitors.
/The young