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advise on how the supervision of recreation and sport
by voluntary and government agencies can be improved and expanded;
be the channel for advice to government on financial assistance to amateur sport;
make recommendations to government on any special services and facilities required to meet the leisure- time needs of young people;
keep under review needs in these fields and progress made in meeting them and to issue an annual report; and
establish a special secretariat under the supervision
of the Secretary for Home Affairs.
In his address at the opening of the new session of the Legislative
Council on October 17, the Governor said that the council would bring
together a high-level group of people with the special experience of the public and private organisations controlling the main recreational facilities
and services in existence.
The Council will also include within its purview the five-year
programme of recreational development and nature conservation which was
announced last year. The programme is now passing from the planning stage
to actual construction.
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