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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1983 ·
LOOKING BACK AT THE WORK AND CHANGES ACCOMPLISHED, HE SAID: +THE PAST 10 YEARS SAW GIANT STRIDES IN OUR SOCIAL PROGRAMMES AND THE PUBLICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSALS IN THE WHITE PAPERS ON EDUCATION, MEDICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES, TRANSPORT AND DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION.
→THE LAST 10 YEARS SAW THE OPENING OF THE COUNTRY PARKS, OCEAN PARK, THE ARTS CENTRE AND THE SPACE MUSEUM, QUEEN ELIZABETH STADIUM, KO SHAN THEATRE, AND THE COLISEUM.
+HOW EMPTY THE YEARS BEFORE THE 1970'S SEEM WITHOUT THESE GREAT IMPROVEMENTS:+
MR AKERS-JONES POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE FOUR MAJOR RECLAMATIONS IN KOWLOON AND EIGHT ON HONG KONG ISLAND IN THE PAST DECADE.
+URBAN GROWTH SAW THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST TSIM SHA TSUI AND THE REDEVELOPMENT OF ALMOST THE WHOLE OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SHORES OF HONG KONG ISLAND, HE SAID.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF MAJOR FACILITIES, SUCH AS THE CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL, THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY, THE COAL-BURNING POWER STATIONS AT CASTLE PEAK AND LAMMA AS WELL AS THE CONTAINER PORT IN KWAI CHUNG, WERE ALL COMPLETED IN THE PAST DECADE,
+ IN 1973, WE BUILT 8 000 HOUSING UNITS, IN 1983, 38 000, PROVIDING HOMES FOR ABOUT 200 000 PEOPLE, HE SAID.
SOCIAL PROGRAMMES AND ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS THE SETTING UP OF DISTRICT BOARDS HAVE ALSO OPENED NEW HORIZONS FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, WHICH HAS GROWN FROM FOUR MILLION IN 1973 TO THE PRESENT 5,2 MILLION.
MR AKERS-JONES SAID PERHAPS THE MOST DRAMATIC CHANGES HAD TAKEN PLACE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, BUT THESE CHANGES WILL NOT STOP IN 1984 AND WHAT WAS BEGUN IN THE SEVENTIES WILL NOT BE COMPLETE BY THE END OF THE EIGHTIES.+
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HE CITED THE DEVELOPMENT OF TWO NEW TOWNS SHA TIN AND TUEN MUN – TO ILLUSTRATE THE KIND OF CHANGES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
+YUEN LONG, FAN LING AND TAI PO ARE ALL IN THE MIDST OF DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL LAST UNTIL 1990 AND BEYOND AND WILL TAKE .THE POPULATION OF EACH OF THESE TOWNS ABOVE THE TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND MARK, HE SAID.
HE NOTED THAT IT WAS NO LONGER APPROPRIATE TO SPEAK OF SEPARATE GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS OF HONG KONG, KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES IN VIEW OF THE NUMEROUS SINEWS OF ROADS, RAILWAYS AND WATER AND ELECTRICITY SUPPLY LINES BUILT IN THE LAST DECADE LINKING DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE TERRITORY TOGETHER.
/+AND, JUST