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Thursday, June 14, 1973

NEW GUIDE TO TOURISTS ON LANTAU

A special tourist guide for visitors to Lantau Island, highlighting

the various features of the island, has been erected at Silvermine Bay.

Financed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association and designed in

conjunction with the District Office, Islands, the map is the first

of its kind to be built in the New Territories for both local visitors

and overseas tourists.

The map board, measuring about seven feet high and six feet

wide, is protected from the weather by an overhanging roof finished

with Chinese tiles.

All the land areas, including islands adjacent to Lantau, arc

depicted in raised moulded concrete. Place names, roads, paths,

picnic spots, temples, beaches, public telephones, police and fire

stations and hospitals are clearly marked.

Tomorrow (Friday) a ceremony will be held at Silvermine Bay

during which the Chairman of the Mui Wo Rural Committee, Mr. Tsang Lin,

and the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Tourist Association, Mr. John

Payne, will jointly unveil the map board.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a representative to cover the opening ceremony to be held at Silvermine Bay Ferry Pier at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Friday). The launch "Sir Cecil Clementi" will take the press to Mui No, leaving the Marine Department Pier (Central) at 9.45 a.m. Light refreshments will be provided. lir. Hanny Lee, Assistant Information Officer of N.T.A., will be present to help the press.

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