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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1979
GOVERNOR PRAISES ROLE OF NON-PROF IT-MAKING ORGANISATIONS
IN EXPANDED SCHOOLS PROGRAMME *****
THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY) NON- PROF IT-MAKING ORGANISATIONS PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OF RAPID EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION.
HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS INDEED GRATEFUL+ TO THE MANAGEMENTS WHICH GAVE GENEROUSLY BOTH TIME AND RESOURCES TO HELP BUILD AND MANAGE THE SCHOOLS WHICH WERE SO BADLY NEEDED.
SIR MURRAY WAS SPEAKING AT THE FOUNDATION STONE LAYING CEREMONY OF THE NEW BRANCH OF JU CHING CHU ENGLISH COLLEGE IN KWAT CHUNG THE SECOND EXPANSION OF THE COLLEGE IN THREE YEARS TO HELP MEET THE GOVERNMENT'S TARGET OF PROVIDING FREE EDUCATION TO JUNIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS BY NEXT SEPTEMBER.
THE KWAI CHUNG SCHOOL IS THE THIRD BRANCH OF THE COLLEGE, AND ON ITS COMPLETION IN MID-1980, THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE WILL RISE TO MORE THAN 6,000.
THE GOVERNOR NOTED THAT THERE WERE FEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TSUEN WAN WHEN THE COLLEGE WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1966. +NOW THERE ARE OVER 40,+ HE SAID.
SIR MURRAY SAID THE NEW SCHOOL WOULD BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY BEING BUILT IN TSUEN WAN KWAI CHUNG AND WOULD PLAY ITS PART IN EDUCATING AND EQUIPPING THE COMING GENERATIONS +WHO WILL LIVE IN IT AND GIVE IT ITS CHARACTER AND MAKE IT THE IR HOME+.
+ IT IS AN EXCITING THOUGHT THAT BY THE TIME THE FIRST STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM THIS COLLEGE, THIS TOWN WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND BE A CONSIDERABLE CITY IN ITS OWN RIGHT, WITH ITS RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES BUILT, AND ITS SOCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE BESIDE ITS OWN TOWN HALL, HE ADDED.
+1 AM SURE THAT THIS COLLEGE WILL PLAY ITS PART IN BUILDING THE NEW CITY ALONG LINES THAT WILL ENDURE.+
TO BE BUILT ON A 5,500 SQUARE-METRE SITE GRANTED FREE OF PREMIUM BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE NEW SCHOOL IS A $15 MILLION PROJECT, COMPRISING 40 CLASSROOMS, 13 SPECIAL ROOMS, AN ASSEMBLY HALL, A GYMNASIUM AND A SWIMMING POOL.
IT WILL ACCOMMODATE UP TO 3,600 STUDENTS WHEN OPERATING BI-SESSIONALLY. LIKE ITS MOTHER COLLEGE AND THE TWO BRANCHES IN YUEN LONG AND TUEN MUN, THE NEW SCHOOL WILL OFFER ALL ITS FORMS ONE TO THREE PLACES TO THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FOR ALLOCATION THROUGH THE SECONDARY SCHOOL NETS.
/SIR MURRAY