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MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1990

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'KING SIZE' BIRTHDAY CAKE TO CELEBRATE NEW DECADE

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A BIRTHDAY CAKE

205 KILOGRAMS IN WEIGHT AND 152 CM BY 91 CM

FARE THE MAIN WAS

FOR SOME 800 TEN-YEAR-OLD BY 13 CM IN SIZE CHILDREN IN SHA TIN TODAY (MONDAY).

THE CAKE,

PROBABLY THE

BIGGEST EVER

IN

BAKED

HONG KONG, WITH AMAH ROCK IN THE

FEATURED AN ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF SHA TIN, FOREGROUND AND MODERN BUILDINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF SHING MUN RIVER.

FROM A RURAL A POPULATION OF MORE

THIS WAS SYMBOLIC OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHA TIN VALLEY 10 YEARS AGO TO A MODERN TOWNSHIP WITH THAN 500,000 PEOPLE TODAY.

OF

TIN TEN-YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY ANOTHER EVENT OF TODAY'S "NEW SHA PARTY" WAS HAVING THESE CHILDREN JOT DOWN THEIR WISHES AND VISIONS SHA TIN IN THE NEXT DECADE.

MEMBER, MRS

ROSANNA

TAM,

AND

OF THE DIRECTOR

WHO BURIED A THE AMPHITHEATRE AREA

AN OMELCO ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD TSANG, WERE AMONG THE GUESTS TIME CAPSULE CONTAINING THESE "WISH SLIPS" IN OF CENTRAL PARK.

YEAR, MRS TAM WISHING THE YOUNG PEOPLE GOOD LUCK IN THE

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND URGED THEM TO ACTIVELY TAKE PART IN IN COMMUNITY BUILDING PROJECTS.

NEW

"I HOPE YOU WILL LIVE UP TO THE EXPECTATIONS

OF YOUR PARENTS

SHE SAID.

AND TEACHERS AND WILL WORK DILIGENTLY TOWARDS YOUR GOALS,"

MR TSANG, ON THE OTHER HAND, SAID FAST DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISTRICT, OFFICER EIGHT YEARS AGO.

WHICH

HE HE

WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE HAD SERVED AS DISTRICT

HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT WITH ESPECIALLY THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION, BECOME A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE IN THE YEARS TO COME.

RESIDENTS' PARTICIPATION,

SHA TIN WOULD

2000, I HOPE WILL RE REALISED,

HE

"WHEN THE TIME CAPSULE IS RECOVERED IN THE YEAR ALL YOUR WISHES, FOR SHA TIN AND YOURSELVES, SAID.

PUBLICATIONS OF

TAPE OF THE LAST DISTRICT BOARD DISTRICT BOARD TERM REPORT

BESIDES THE TIME CAPSULE, WHICH ALSO CONTAINS THE SHA TIN FESTIVAL, A CASSETTE MEETING, CHINESE AND ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS, AND SHA TIN FACT SHEETS, A

TRAPEZIUM

OCCASION.

WALL

MURAL

SURROUNDING

THE

WAS PAINTED AMPHITHEATRE

ON A TO

17-METRE COMMEMORATE

WIDE

THE

/THE MURAL

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