THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1987
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THE GOVERNOR AND LADY WILSON CALLED ON A FAMILY WHO WERE SIXTH GENERATION TAI O RESIDENTS.
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AFTER THIS, THEY TOURED THE LUNG TIN ESTATE PHASE I
THE FIRST RURAL PUBLIC HOUSING SCHEME UNDERTAKEN IN THE DISTRICT BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY. IT WAS COMPLETED IN 1980 AND IS HOME ΤΟ ABOUT 1,000 PEOPLE.
WHILE IN TAI O, SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON WERE BRIEFED DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS WHICH INCLUDED THE COMPLETION OF THE LUNG ESTATE PHASE II AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SHELTERED ANCHORAGE IN EARLY 1990'S.
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BEFORE LEAVING TAI 0, THE GOVERNOR AND LADY WILSON VISITED BUDDHIST FAT HO MEMORIAL COLLEGE WHERE THEY MET STAFF AND STUDENTS AND WHILE THERE THEY ALSO DISCUSSED WITH OTHER LOCAL HEADMASTERS VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS AND PROBLEMS FACED BY THE VILLAGE SCHOOLS.
THE PARTY THEN FLEW BY HELICOPTER TO CHEUNG CHAU WHERE THEY WERE MET BY THE ISLANDS DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR LAM WAI-KEUNG, CHEUNG CHAU RURAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, MR FUNG PAK-TAI, AND DISTRICT LANDS OFFICER, MR WAN MIN-KEE.
A BRIEFING WAS GIVEN ON DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS CONCERNING THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND PUBLIC HOUSING.
SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON WERE TOLD THAT THE SECOND ESTATE ON CHEUNG CHAU, TO BE BUILT AT SIN YAN TSENG, WOULD START TAKING IN RESIDENTS IN LATE 1992 AND AN INDOOR RECREATION CENTRE WOULD BE COMPLETED AT NAM SHE TONG IN EARLY 1991.
THEY THEN PROCEEDED TO THE PRAYA, THROUGH THE BUSTLING STREETS, AND WERE BRIEFED ON PLANS FOR A $41.5 MILLION MARKET COMPLEX ΤΟ BE BUILT NEXT YEAR. THIS WOULD SOLVE HAWKER PROBLEMS.
NEXT, THE PARTY VISITED THE RENOVATED "STRAWHUT OF THE LAW FAMILY WHERE THE GROUND FLOOR WAS USED AS AN ANCESTRAL HALL AND THE FAMILY ELDERS LIVED ON THE SECOND FLOOR. THEY ALSO VISITED THE 200-YEAR-OLD PAK TEI TEMPLE, WHICH HOUSES SEVERAL RELICS SUCH AS A LARGE IRON SWORD AND A SEDAN CHAIR.
BEFORE CONCLUDING THEIR VISIT ΤΟ THE ISLANDS DISTRICT, SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON ATTENDED A TEA RECEPTION AT AN OPEN AREA IN FRONT OF THE PAK TEI TEMPLE, AND MET MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT BOARD AND THE RURAL COMMITTEES AND OTHER LOCAL PERSONALITIES.
SIR DAVID WAS PRESENTED WITH A SCROLL BY A WELL KNOWN LOCAL CALLIGRAPHER.
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