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FRENCH VISITORS LOOK OVER TREATMENT WORKS
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A SEVEN-MEMBER FRENCH DELEGATION, ON THE FINAL DAY OF THEIR THREE-DAY VISIT TO HONG KONG, TODAY VISITED THE SHA TIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS.
THE VISITORS, LED BY SENATOR R. POUILLE, WERE MET BY THE GOVERNMENT ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER, MR MICHAEL HUTTON, AND BRIEFED BY THE WORKS MANAGER, MR GORDON TAYLOR.
EARLIER IN THE DAY, THE PARTY MET THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF WATER SUPPLIES, MR K.L, WONG.
AMONG THOSE IN THE GROUP WERE MR ANDRE ROSSINOT, MAYOR OF NANCY IN EAST FRANCE; MR JEAN CLAUDE COLIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE NANCY DISTRICT POTABLE AND WASTE WATERS COMMISSION AND MR ANDRE LEFEBVRE, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE NANCY DISTRICT WATER BOARD.
THE VISITORS ARRIVED IN HONG KONG ON WEDNESDAY, AFTER VISITING CHINA AND MACAU AND WILL LEAVE TONIGHT FOR NEW DELHI.
TROPHIES FOR AQUATIC WINNERS
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SIXTY-TWO WINNERS OF THIS YEAR'S SUMMER AQUATIC PROGRAMME WERE THIS EVENING PRESENTED WITH TROPHIES AT A CEREMONY IN VICTORIA PARK SWIMMING POOL, CAUSEWAY BAY.
THE CEREMONY CONCLUDED A SERIES OF AQUATIC EVENTS, RANGING FROM PLATFORM DIVING TO SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING, LAUNCHED DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS.
THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MAY THIS YEAR AND WAS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE RECREATION AND SPORT SERVICE (RSS) OF THE RECREATION AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT AND THE URBAN COUNCIL.
ABOUT 2 500 PEOPLE APPLIED TO TAKE PART IN THE PROGRAMME, WHICH CONSISTED OF 89 DIFFERENT AQUATIC COURSES HELD IN SWIMMING POOLS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
IN HIS WELCOMING ADDRESS, THE COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR PATRICK WILLIAMSON, SAID THE SUMMER AQUATIC PROGRAMME, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN 1978, HAD BECOME EVER MORE POPULAR AS INTEREST IN SUCH SPORTS HAD DIVERSIFIED.
HE SAID THE RESPONSE TO THIS YEAR'S PROGRAMME HAD BEEN TREMENDOUS, WITH MORE THAN HALF OF THE PARTICIPANTS INTRODUCED TO THE SPORTS FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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