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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1988
GOVERNOR LEARNS MORE ABOUT COUNTRY PARKS
THE GOVERNOR, SIR
DAVID WILSON,
SPENT
THE AFTERNOON TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ON HIS FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO SOME OF THE MAJOR COUNTRY PARK FACILITIES TO FAMILIARISE HIMSELF WITH THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MANAGING HONG KONG'S 21 COUNTRY PARKS.
DEPARTMENT'S
SIR
THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF WORK IN DEVELOPING AND
DAVID WAS
ACCOMPANIED ON THE AND FISHERIES, DR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CONSERVATION
TRAVELLING BY HELICOPTER, VISIT BY LADY WILSON, THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE LAWRENCE LEE, AND THE DEPARTMENT'S AND COUNTRY PARKS), MR K.C. IV.
SIR DAVID STARTED HIS INSPECTION TOUR BY VISITING THE TAI
IN TAI LAM COUNTRY
PARK
-
THE
DEPARTMENT'S
TONG
PRINCIPAL
TREE NURSERY TREE NURSERY WHERE HE SAW TREE SEEDLING PRODUCTION WORK IN PROGRESS.
―
750,000 TREE SEEDLINGS YEAR TO MEET THE DEPARTMENT'S PLANTING OF OVER 130 SPECIES EVERY
UNDERTAKEN BY REQUIREMENTS AND TO CATER FOR THE LANDSCAPING PROJECTS OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
HE WAS TOLD THAT THE NURSERY PRODUCED
FOR HIMSELF THE ERODIBLE
WHILE IN TAI LAM COUNTRY PARK, SIR DAVID SAW
IN
AREAS THOSE
OF HIGHLY
AFFORESTATION WORK
DECOMPOSED THE SILTING
GRANITE AS A MEASURE TO CHECK SOIL EROSION, TO ALLEVIATE PROBLEM IN THE YUEN LONG AREA AND TO IMPROVE THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE.
THE GOVERNOR THEN VISITED THE LEAD MINE PASS MANAGEMENT
CENTRE
DEPARTMENTS
WHERE HE WAS BRIEFED ON THE CONCERTED GOVERNMENT
IN
PREVENTING
AND
IN SHING MỤN COUNTRY PARK
RY
VARIOUS
EFFORTS SUPPRESSING HILL FIRES.
THESE INCLUDED A
EDUCATE THE
PUBLIC
OF
CONTINUING
THE
TO MAJOR PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
FIRES, HILL IN IMPORTANCE
PREVENTING LOOKOUTS AT STRATEGIC AREAS, ESTABLISHMENT OF FIRE BREAKS AND FIRE
ACCESS ROADS IN ALL CONSTRUCTION OF WATER TANKS AND IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY PARKS TO FACILITATE FIRE FIGHTING.
SERVICES
FIRE
AIR
FIRE
SIR DAVID WAS TOLD THAT THE SUPPORT GIVEN BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE ASSISTANCE GIVEN BY THE CIVIL AID SERVICES IN
AIRLIFTING AND WATER BOMBING SERVICES PATROL DUTY, AS WELL AS THE PROVIDED BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY FORCE. HAD BEEN VERY USEFUL
AND CONTAINING DETECTING IN
OUTBREAKN.
ARBORETUM WHERE PLANT SPECIES WHICH SPECIMENS,
SHRUB
NEXT ON THE VISIT PROGRAMME WAS THE SHING MUN THE GOVERNOR SAW SOME OF THE RARE AND PROTECTED ARR
TREE AND AMONG THE COLLECTION OF 2,400 COMPRISING 82 FAMILIES AND 308 SPECIES INCLUDING THOSE HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA.
INDIGENOUS ΤΟ
/BIR DAVID ....