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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1989
EXCITING PROGRAMME FOR TSUEN WAN SPORTS FESTIVAL
THE UNDER
HAS
11TH TSUEN WAN
A WIDE-RANGING PROGRAMME OF RECREATIONAL AND SPORTS EVENTS BEEN ARRANGED FOR RESIDENTS OF TSUEN WAN SPORTS FESTIVAL WHICH WILL BEGIN ON NOVEMBER 4.
DETAILS OF THE MONTH-LONG SPORTS THE DISTRICT OFFICER, MR WILLIAM SHIU, AT (FRIDAY).
FESTIVAL WERE ANNOUNCED BY A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY
LARGE
RECREATIONAL AND THE DISTRICT WOULD
A NUMBER OF MR SHUI ALSO SAID THAT SPORTS FACILITIES EITHER BUILT OR BEING BUILT IN PROVIDE IMPETUS TO SPORTS DEVELOPMENT.
WU CIRCUIT
THE TSUEN KING
CHUNG PUBLIC
POOL HAD SWIMMING SHING MUN VALLEY PARK, T90 OPENED, AND NEW FACILITIES SUCH AS THE KUNG TAM PARK AND THE TSUEN WAN AUDITORIUM WOULD BE UNDERTAKEN.
"IT IS HOPED THAT THESE FACILITIES ACTIVITIES IN THE DISTRICT," HE SAID.
WILL
HELP PROMOTE
SPORTS
MR SHIU NOTED DISTRICT SPORTS FESTIVALS.
THAT TSUEN WAN WAS THE
PIONEER
IN
HOLDING
AND,
INTO AN
FIRST HELD IN 1979 "THE TSUEN WAN SPORTS FESTIVAL WAS WITH KEEN SUPPORT FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, IT HAS DEVELOPED ANNUAL EVENT IN THE DISTRICT WITH REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS.
"THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PAST FESTIVALS HAVE MADE
IN SUCCEEDED
BRINGING
AND EFFORTS YEAR, " HE SAID.
ON
THIS
YEAR'S
ABOUT
PROGRAMMES, THE
BETTER
CHAIRMAN
PROGRAMMES
EVERY BACH
OF THE
EXECUTIVE
FESTIVAL WOULD OPEN WITH A COMMITTEE, MR CHUNG WAI-PING, SAID THE MARATHON SWIMMING COMPETITION AT APPROACH BEACH ON NOVEMBER 4.
OTHER
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED
TABLE TENNIS
AND MARTIAL ARTS
DEMONSTRATIONS BY TEAMS FROM CHINA.
IN ADDITION,
MINI-SOCCER,
A WIDE RANGE OF SPORTS EVENTS INCLUDING ARCHERY, HANDBALL, TENNIS, BASKETBALL, SOCCER,
AND
GO-KART
FIVE-A-SIDE
DANCE, AEROBIC BADMINTON, CROSS-COUNTRY MARATHON WOULD BE HELD AT VARIOUS VENUES.
TABLE TENNIS,
RACING
"THE PROGRAMME ALSO INCLUDES A BOXING COMPETITION,
MR CHUNG SAID. EVENTS FOR THE HANDICAPPED AND THE ELDERLY,
AND SPECIAL
BY THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT THE SPORTS FESTIVAL IS ORGANISED
TSUEN WAN DISTRICT BOARD, DISTRICT OFFICE AND THE FEDERATION OF THE SPORTS AND RECREATION ASSOCIATIONS.
$350,000
FROM
THE
EXPENDITURE IN THE FESTIVAL IS ESTIMATED TO BE OVER $1 MILLION,.
THE FROM
DISTRICT BOARD, WITH $300,000 COMING REGIONAL COUNCIL, AND THE REMAINDER FROM LOCAL DONATIONS.
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