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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1983.
POPULAR SPORTS CENTRE OPEN AGAIN
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THE CITY LIONS SPORTS CENTRE IN HAPPY VALLEY OPERATED BY THE RECREATION AND SPORT SERVICE OF THE RECREATION AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT IS THE MOST POPULAR CENTRE OF ITS KIND IN HONG KONG.
THIS WAS SAID THIS (SUNDAY) MORNING BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR PATRICK WILLIAMSON DURING A CEREMONY TO MARK THE RE-OPENING OF THE CENTRE NOW HOUSED UNDER THE NORTH STAND OF THE HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB'S STADIUM,
THE SPORTS-AND-FITNESS CENTRE WAS PREVIOUSLY LOCATED UNDER THE STADIUM'S SOUTH STAND WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED RECENTLY FOR REDEVELOPMENT.
ALSO TAKING PART IN THE CEREMONY WERE THE WIFE OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOTBALL CLUB, MRS EVE DUNCAN AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY LIONS CLUB, DR H.W. FUNG.
MR WILLIAMSON SAID THAT FROM MARCH 1981 TO AUGUST 1983, BEFORE THE SOUTH STAND WAS DEMOLISHED, THE CENTRE ENROLLED 34 833 PARTICIPANTS WHO TOOK PART IN A VARIETY OF COURSES WITH A TOTAL SESSIONAL ATTENDANCE RECORD OF 227 928.
+THESE FIGURES SHOW THAT, IN SPITE OF THE SIZE OF THE CENTRE, IT IS BEYOND DISPUTE THE MOST POPULAR CENTRE OF ITS KIND THROUGHOUT HONG KONG, HE SAID.
NOR DID ENTHUSIASM WANE DURING THE SHORT PERIOD WHEN ACTIVITIES HAD TO BE SUSPENDED PENDING THIS PRESENT MOVE TO THE NORTH STAND, HE SAID.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FITTING OUT WORK HAD BEEN COMPLETED, OLD AND NEW PARTICIPANTS FLOODED BACK TO THE CENTRE, HE POINTED OUT.
+ IN NOVEMBER, WE RECORDED AN ALL-TIME HIGH FIGURE OF 4 155 PARTICIPANTS WHOSE SESSIONAL ATTENDANCE REACHED 10 202.
+THIS INDEED IS A FORMIDABLE FITNESS WORKSHOP CHURNING OUT FIT CITIZENS AT MASS PRODUCTION RATES.
MR WILLIAMSON ALSO THANKED THE FOOTBALL CLUB FOR SUGGESTING TO THE DEPARTMENT TO UTILISE THE SPACE UNDER THE SOUTH STAND AT THE END OF 1980 WHEN ITS PREVIOUS OCCUPANTS, THE HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, MOVED OUT.
HE THANKED THE CITY LIONS CLUB AS WELL FOR ITS GENEROUS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND FOR DESIGNING THE INTERIOR OF THE CENTRE.
MR WILLIAMSON SAID TWO MORE LARGER CENTRES WILL COME INTO OPERATION EARLY NEXT YEAR.
THEY ARE THE NEW TO KWA WAN SPORTS CENTRE, WHICH WILL REPLACE THE FORMER HUNG HOM CAR PARK SPORTS CENTRE, AND THE CHEUNG WAH ESTATE SPORTS CENTRE IN FANLING.
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