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REGARDING LIBRARIES, HE SAID ONE WAS OPENED IN TAI PO LAST MONTH, AND AN INTERIM LIBRARY WOULD OPEN IN SHA TIN THIS MONTH AND ANOTHER IN SHEUNG SHUI BY THE END OF THE YEAR. IN TUEN MUN AND KWAI CHUNG, A LIBRARY WILL OPEN NEXT YEAR.
AS FOR ACTIVE RECREATION, MR. AKERS-JONES SAID EXISTING FACILITIES WERE EITHER BEING CURRENTLY IMPROVED OR PLANNING WAS WELL ADVANCED ON THE FUTURE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME.
MAJOR PROJECTS HE MENTIONED INCLUDED A FULLY-EQUIPPED SPORTS GROUND BY 1980 IN SAI KUNG PLAYGROUNDS BEING BUILT AT TAI O ON LANTAU AND ON CHEUNG CHAU THE KWAI CHUNG SPORTS GROUND TO BE COMPLETED NEXT YEAR PROVIDING MINI-SOCCER PITCHES, BASKET BALL COURTS, A FOOTBALL PITCH AND RUNNING TRACK= A SWIMMING POOL COMPLEX OF EIGHT POOLS PLANNED FOR COMPLETION IN 1980-81 AT CASTLE PEAK IN ADDITION TO OPENING UP NEW BEACHES THE FANLING SWIMMING POOL WHICH WILL OPEN NEXT YEAR AND THE YUEN LONG SWIMMING POOL, WORK ON WHICH HAD STARTED.
MR. AKERS-JONES SAID: IN THE NEW TOWNS, THE LIST OF PROJECTS IS TOO LONG TO RELATE BUT TO GIVE AN INDICATION, LET ME SAY THAT THERE ARE 51 PROJECTS FOR THE DEVEOPMENT OF OPEN SPACE IN TSUEN WAN IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS.+
HE AGREED WITH THE HON. CHARLES YEUNG THAT THE SMALLER TOWNS MUST NOT BE NEGLECTED, AND HE HOPED WHAT HE HAD SAID DEMONSTRATED THAT THIS WAS NOT THE CASE.
HE SAID THE PROGRAMME OF LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS CONTINUED OUTSIDE THE TOWNS, AND EXPENDITURE ON THESE MINOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE RURAL AREAS HAD AMOUNTED TO $20 MILLION IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
+THIS YEAR, AT THE SUGGESTION OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK, A VILLAGE LIGHTING PROGRAMME HAS BEGUN AND 14 VILLAGES WILL HAVE STREET LIGHTS BEFORE THE YEAR IS OUT.
+1 PLAN A GREATLY INCREASED PROGRAMME NEXT YEAR, HE SAID,
TURNING TO MATTERS OF LAND RESUMPTION, MR. AKERS-JONES SAID A JOINT WORK ING GROUP IS TO BE SET UP TO SPECIFICALLY ADVISED THE GOVERNOR ON HOW TO TACKLE IN FUTURE THE QUESTION OF THE METHOD AND RATES OF COMPENSATION FOR RESUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND
IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
MR. AKERS-JONES SAID THAT SIR YUET-KEUNG KAN HAD AGREED TO ACCEPT THE TASK OF CHAIRMAN OF THE GROUP WHICH OULD HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO GET DOWN TO WORK AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
HE SAID IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THE WORKING GROUP WOULD COMPRISE FOUR HEUNG YEE KUK REPRESENTATIVES, THREE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ONE OTHER MEMBER AND T..O GOVERVEKT OFFICERS WITH PARTICULAR KNOWLEDGE OF T- E.. TERITORIS AND LAD RESUMPTION PROBLEMS AND PROCEDURES,
THE GOVERNOR,