TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1979
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SIR MURRAY TO SEE WORK OF ANTI-POLLUTION VESSELS
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THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, WILL WATCH A SERIES OF DEMONSTRATIONS BY ANTI-POLLUTION LAUNCHES OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY (OCTOBER 25).
ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR. MALCOLM ALEXANDER, SIR MURRAY WILL GO TO THE YAU MA TEI TYPHOON SHELTER TO SEE HOW THE +WATER WITCH+, A MECHANICAL REFUSE COLLECTION VESSEL, HELPS KEEP THE HARBOUR CLEAN.
THE DEMONSTRATIONS, BEGINNING AT 3 P.M., WILL INCLUDE THE DISPLAY OF A NUMBER OF ANTI-OIL POLLUTION VESSELS' CAPABILITIES IN FIGHTING OIL SPILLS.
NOTE TO EDITORS.
YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO COVER THE DEMONSTRATION BY ANTI-POLLUTION VESSELS OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT ON THURSDAY (OCTOBER 25).
THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, WILL ATTEND THE DEMONSTRATION WHICH WILL START AT 3 P.M.
A MARINE DEPARTMENT LAUNCH 50 WILL BE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE NEWS MEDIA. IT WILL LEAVE QUEEN'S PIER FOR YAU MA TEI TYPHOON SHELTER AT 2.45 P.M. SHARP. GIS OFFICERS WILL BE ON HAND TO ASSIST THE PRESS.
COMMUNITY SPIRIT OF YUEN LONG PRAISED ****
THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR. DAVID AKERS-JONES, PAID TRIBUTE TO THE +COMMUNITY SPIRIT OF YUEN LONG PEOPLE WHEN OPENING A NEW SCHOOL IN THE NEW TOWN TODAY (TUESDAY).
HE SAID THIS SPIRIT HAD CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THE SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY OF YUEN LONG, WHICH HAD GROWN IN 20 YEARS FROM A QUIET MARKET INTO A BUSTLING MODERN COMMUNITY.
+YUEN LONG TOWN WILL CONTINUE TO GROW, MR. AKERS-JONES SAID, +AND WE MUST ENSURE THAT WE DO NOT LOSE THE SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION AND SENSE OF LOCAL PRIDE AND BELONGING AS THE POPULATION INCREASES.+
THE NEW SCHOOL IS THE YUEN LONG MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION SECONDARY SCHOOL, WHOSE FOUNDATION STONE MR. AKERS-JONES LAID NEARLY FIVE YEARS AGO. HE SAID THERE WERE ALREADY 10 SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN YUEN LONG AND THE NEW ONE WOULD ADD 1 200 PLACES.
HE SAID BY THE END OF THE YEAR A FURTHER SECONDARY SCHOOL WOULD OPEN, WHICH WOULD ALSO HAVE AN AIR-CONDITIONED HALL AS A LOCAL VENUE FOR CONCERTS AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCES.
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