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Saturday, June 2, 1973

MORE TREES TO BE PLANTED THROUGHOUT HONG KONG

Tree-planting time is here again. And this year the programe is

bigger and support greater.

Tomorrow (Sunday), more than 60 young people from the Conservancy

Club of the Diocesan Girls' School and St. Claire's College will take part

in a ceremony marking another Urban Council tree-planting year.

More than 200 trees will be planted on that day, to be followed by

the planting of thousands more during the year.

Ten thousand saplings were purchased from China recently and are

expected to arrive in Hong Kong this month.

An Urban Council spokesman said that the trees from China would

help boost greatly the current Urban Council drive to make Hong Kong a

greener and prettier place.

He said other tree-planting ceremonies would be planned, and it

was hoped that more young people would take part so that a greater appreciation

of the environment might be developed among the young.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a reporter

and/or photographer to cover the ceremony at the Lo Fu Ngam Park on Sunday (June 3). The

ceremony will start at 10 a.m. and will continue

throughout the day.

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