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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1981
APART FROM THESE COMMITTEES, WORKING PARTIES AND ACTION GROUPS ARE ALSO SET UP FROM TIME TO TIME, MR WIGGHAM ADDED.
THERE ARE TWO WORKING PARTIES IN SESSION AT PRESENT, ONE ON CAMPING, NOW AN EXTREMELY POPULAR PASTIME, AND ONE ON THE MAXIMISATION OF USE OF FACILITIES. IN THE PAST, THERE HAD BEEN WORKING PARTIES LOOKING INTO MOUNTAINEERING, AQUATIC SPORTS AND CYCLING, HE SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT ALTHOUGH THE CRS WAS AN ADVISORY BODY AND HAD NO FUNDS OF ITS OWN, IT ADMINISTERED THREE SOURCES OF FUNDS, NAMELY THE PROMOTION OF SPORTS VOTE, THE SIR DAVID TRENCH FUND FOR RECREATION, AND THE GOVERNOR'S SPECIAL FUND.
+GOVERNING BODIES OF SPORT, AND TEAMS PARTICIPATING IN INTERNATIONAL EVENTS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS OVERSEAS OR IN HONG KONG MAY APPLY TO THE COUNCIL FOR GRANTS FROM THE PROMOTION OF SPORTS VOTE. THIS FINANCIAL YEAR, THE COUNCIL HAS ABOUT $1.2 MILLION AVAILABLE AND WE EXPECT MORE NEXT YEAR
THE SIR DAVID TRENCH PUND FOR RECREATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN JANUARY 1970 WITH A DONATION OF $3 MILLION BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR, AND WAS RECENTLY ENLARGED BY A GRANT OF $15 MILLION FROM THE LOTTERIES FUND.
*THE GOVERNOR'S SPECIAL FUND WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1974 THROUGH A VERY GENEROUS DONATION OF $10 MILLION AGAIN FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE. THIS FUND HAS BEEN DEVOTED MAINLY TO BRICKS AND MORTAR' TYPE PROJECTS. ALTOGETHER 78 SUCH PROJECTS HAVE BEEN HELPED WITH GRANTS FROM THE FUND, WHICH NOW UNFORTUNATELY IS ALMOST EXHAUSTED, MR WIGGHAM SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE CRS ADVISED THE GOVERNMENT THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, AND HE EMPHASIZED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO WISH WHATSOEVER TO SET ITSELF UP AS THE SUPREME GOVERNING BODY FOR SPORT.
+BUT BECAUSE SPORT, AS WITH RECREATION, IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE WELL-BEING OF THE COMMUNITY, THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAS A VERY DEFINITE RESPONSIBILITY IN ENCOURAGING ITS DEVELOPMENT, HE SAID.
HE EXPLAINED THAT ONE PRACTICAL WAY IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS SUPPORT AND COMPLEMENT THOSE OF THE VARIOUS INDEPENDENT SPORTS BODIES WAS THE LINK BETWEEN THE RECREATION AND SPORT FUNCTIONS OF THE RSS IN THE COURSE OF WHICH NATURAL SPORTING TALENT CAN BE DISCOVERED,
THIS TALENT CAN BE ENCOURAGED AND NURTURED, THEN HANDED ON TO A CLUB OR THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE SPORT IN QUESTION.
+IN A SIMILAR WAY WE ARE BUILDING A THREE-WAY LINK BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT. THE NATIONAL SPORTS BODIES AND THE JUBILEE SPORTS CENTRE, SO THAT BETWEEN US WE CAN PRODUCE THE INTERNATIONAL STARS OF TOMORROW.
+ANOTHER OBVIOUS