ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, April 2, 1975
MORSE PARK - OASIS IN DESERT OF CONCRETE
Thousands Of Young People Will Have Chance To See Queen
When the Queen visits the Morse Park swimming pool on the morning
of May 5, thousands of people will be on hand to welcome her, and most
of them will be members of the younger generation whom the Queen always
enjoys meeting.
The season will then be in full swing, and the swimmers will
have come from the teeming estates of Wang Tau Hon, Lok Fu
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Tai Sin and Tung Tau. For them, the Morse Park swimming pool complex is an
oasis in the concrete, desert of the four biggest housing estates in
Kowloon.
The Queen will be the second member of the Royal family to visit
the complex. In 1972, Princess Alexandra was also there.
Like the other six swimming pool complexes on either side of
the harbour, the Morse Park project was financed for the Urban Council
and the Urban Services Department by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club,
which had also given a large grant towards the development of the 44-acre
Morse Park itself.
Morse Park holds the record for the highest number of attendances
at any public swimming pool on a single day 13,300 on one occasion last
year.
The pool ...............
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