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Wednesday, March 21, 1973

SCHOOLS FOR OUTLYING ISLANDS

Land Granted To Non-Profit Sponsoring Groups

The Government is assisting non-profit-making organisations to provide

secondary and pre-vocational education in the outlying islands of Lantau and

Cheung Chau.

A spokesman of the Education Department said today that a secondary

school would be built in Tai O, the principal township on the western part

of Lantau Island.

A 30,000 sq. ft. site for the school has been granted to the Hong

Kong Buddhist Association together with an appropriate capital subsidy.

The Tai O Secondary School will be the first subsidized secondary

school on Lantau Island with ten classrooms and six special rooms and a capacity

of 400 pupils.

The school will not only provide secondary education to children in

Tai O but will also cater for the primary school leavers in the southern district

of Lantau Island.

At present, there are four subsidized primary schools in Tai O Town

with a total of 48 primary classes operating in two sessions.

In Cheung Chau, a three-year pre-vocational school sponsored by the

Catholic Mission is under construction.

A site of 67,000 square feet at Peak Road, Bast, on the island has

Site formation is been granted free to the sponsoring body by the Government.

now in progress.

The completion of the pre-vocational school will provide 360 new school places in addition to the Cheung Chau Government Middle School to cater for the

growing demand for secondary school places in Cheung Chau.

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