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Wednesday, October 16, 1974

One of its first steps was to recommend that District

Recreation Officers should be appointed whose duty it would be

to encourage and advise on how to maximise recreational

facilities in each district, and also to encourage the use

of the country-side by people of the city. A pilot scheme

for 5 City Districts and for Yuen Long is now in operation.

The Council has done much ad học work greatly.

helped by generous private donations.

For instance in the

urban areas and the New Territories something of the order:

of 190 concrete ping pong tables, volley ball and basket

ball pitches have been ordered or are in process of construction,

along with a considerable volume of equipment. Funds have

also been channelled through the Council for the expansion of

activities in various standing camps, or the construction of

now onoc, that will rosult in supervised week-ends in the

country for at least 15,000 more young people next year. In

addition plans of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

for providing countryside amenities are now beginning to

make real progress: 60 new picnic sites came into commission

last year, with an accompanying infrastructure of 5 miles

of paths, and 30 more sites will be completed in the coming

year. If I might say so they have been built and equipped

with notable imagination and good taste and they have performed

their function of attracting many more visitors.

/The young