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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1977
TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN EXHIBITION
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AN EXHIBITION SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENTS WHICH ARE CHANGING THE FACE OF TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN WILL BE OPENED ON MONDAY (AUGUST 8).
THE EXHIBITION, ORGANISED BY THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE, WILL MARK THE OPENING OF A PUBLIC EXHIBITION AREA IN THE LAI CHỈ KOK AMUSEMENT PARK.
ENTITLED +TODAY AND YESTERDAY IN TSUEN WAN+, THE EXHIBITION WILL HIGHLIGHT THE GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMMES AND THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AND RECREATION FACILITIES IN THE NEW TOWN.
IT WILL HAVE MODELS, PLANS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MANY SCHEMES BEING UNDERTAKEN IN THE TOWN.
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OFFICIALLY OPENED BY THE TSUEN WAN TOWN MANAGER, MR. JAMES HAYES, AND MRS. JANE AKERS-JONES, WIFE OF THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES.
MR. HAYES SAID TODAY THE EXHIBITION WOULD BE AN EXTENSION OF THE TOWN SQUARES EXHIBITION STAGED BY HIS OFFICE IN JUNE.
+WE HAD ABOUT 7,000 LOCAL PEOPLE COME TO THE LAST EXHIBITION AND WE HOPE THAT A LARGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE WILL BE INTERESTED IN THIS NEW EXHIBITION, + HE SAID.
+WE WERE ASKED BY MR. DEACON CHIU, PROPRIETOR OF THE LAI CHI KOK AMUSEMENT PARK, TO PUT ON THIS EXHIBITION IN A HALL HE IS SETTING ASIDE FOR DESERVING BODIES WHO WISH TO DISPLAY MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
+WE WERE DELIGHTED TO ACCEPT THE INVITATION.+
CENTREPIECE OF THE EXHIBITION WILL BE THE PLANS DRAWN UP BY ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS FROM THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY FOR FIVE OF TSUEN WAN'S TOWN SQUARES - TAI PEI SQUARE, YI PEI SQUARE, SAM PEI SQUARE, HAU TE SQUARE AND LO TAK COURT.
ALSO ON DISPLAY WILL BE DESIGN SKETCHES FOR TSUEN WAN'S PLANNED TOWN HALL, ITS INDOOR GAMES HALL AND THE KWAI CHUNG SPORTS GROUND.
THE EXHIBITION WILL RUN FOR TWO WEEKS AND WILL BE CPEN BETWEEN 9 A.M. AND 11 P.M. DAILY.
NOTE TO EDITORS:
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO COVER THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE +TODAY AND YESTERDAY IN TSUEN WAN+ EXHIBITION AT THE LAI CHI KOK AMUSEMENT PARK ON MONDAY (AUGUST 8) AT S P.M. PRESS TRANSPORT WILL BE PROVIDED. A GOVERNMENT VAN (AM 3213) WILL LEAVE FROM BEHIND THE TSIM SHA TSUI POST OFFICE AT 4.15 P.M. TO TAKE PRESS REPRESENTATIVES TO AND BACK FROM LAI CHI KOK.
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