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Wednesday, June 14, 1972

DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRYSIDE FOR RECREATION PURPOSES

Government Accepts Plans

Large Stretches Of Countryside To Be Opened Up

Large stretches of countryside in the New Territories and on Hong

Kong Island are to be opened up and developed for recreational purposes.

This is one of the recommendations contained in the Five-Year Recreational

Development Programmes which Government has accepted in principle.

Announcing this today (Wednesday), a Government spokesman said that

facilities provided under these two programmes will add considerably to the

recreational opportunities of large numbers of people and represent a practical

use of our land resources.

It is estimated that the cost of the two programmes will be approximately

$33 million in capital expenditure and $5 million per year in recurrent

expenditure when they are fully implemented.

New Territories

The main feature of the New Territories Five-Year Recreational

Development Programme is to develop a number of Country Parks.

These parks will be sited in places easily accessible from urban areas

and provided with various facilities for the use of large numbers of visitors.

Initially, four Country Parks, each with an area of two square miles,

will be set up at Shing Mun, Lion Rock, Pak Sha Wan, and Pak Fu Tin. In each

of them the following will be provided:-

(a) surfaced

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