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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1980
CHIEF SECRETARY OPENS +KWUN TONG TODAY+ EXHIBITION
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR JACK CATER TODAY PRAISED THE PEOPLE OF KWUN TONG FOR BEING KEEN TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGE OF MAKING THEIR DISTRICT A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE AND TO WORK.
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE +KWUN TONG TODAY+ EXHIBITION, SIR JACK SAID HE WAS ALSO IMPRESSED BY THE UNITY, THE DETERMINATION AND THE EVIDENT CO-OPERATION WITH THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DISPLAYED IN TACKLING THE PROBLEMS OF THE TOWN AND IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS TO BUILD A HAPPY AND CONTENTED COMMUNITY.
HE NOTED THAT THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF KWUN TONG HAS BEEN BOTH RAPID AND IMPRESSIVE.
SIR JACK SAID THAT IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 20 YEARS, KWUN TONG HAD CHANGED FROM A SPARSELY POPULATED PIECE OF BARREN LAND IN EAST KOWLOON INTO A TOWN WITH MORE THAN 650 000 PEOPLE, WITH OVER 7 000 FACTOR IES AND 130 000 WORKERS AND 11 MAJOR HOUSING ESTATES. +THE PROSPERITY OF KWUN TONG DOES MUCH CREDIT TO ITS INDUSTRIOUS COMMUNITY, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT RAPID URBANISATION AND INDUSTRIALISATION HAVE PRODUCED PROBLEMS WHICH AFFECT THE WELL-BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATE THE SORT OF PROBLEMS WHICH AFFECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER ASPECTS OF KWUN TONG AND HOW ITS DISTRICT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE IS COMBATTING THESE PROBLEMS.
+THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF KWUN TONG CAN ACHIEVE THE KIND OF ENVIRONMENT WHICH THEY OR INDEED THE GOVERNMENT - WOULD WISH, BUT THE COMMUNITY'S WHOLE-HEARTED PARTICIPATION IN THIS EXHIBITION, AND THE +KWUN TONG TODAY+ PROJECT OF WHICH IT IS A PART, DEMONSTRATES THAT THE PEOPLE OF KWUN TONG ARE KEEN TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGE OF MAKING THEIR DISTRICT A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE AND TO WORK, HE SAID.
THE +KWUN TONG TODAY+ IS A TWO-WEEK COMMUNITY EVENT
INCORPORATING A SERIES OF ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES AND IS ORGANISED BY VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND LOCAL BODIES. IT WILL BE OFFICIALLY OPENED TOMORROW BY THE DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS,
MR GRAHAM BARNES AT THE KWUN TONG RECREATION GROUND.
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