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Tuesday, October 4, 1977

YUEN LONG TO GET 1500-SEAT AUDITORIUM

A 1500-seat, air-conditioned auditorium is to be incorporated

into a $6.3-million secondary school building project in Yuen Long next year.

Announcing this today, the Acting Secretary for the New Territories,

Mr. John Todd, said that the auditorium would be available to both the

school and .cultural groups in the Yuen Long district.

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Mr. Todd was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Executive

Committee of the Yuen Long District Arte. Committee at the Houng Yoo Kuk

Secondary School in Yuen Long.

Mr. Todd said the committee had been unable to realise its full

potential because of the lack of a proper auditorium in Yuen Long.

This problem will be overcome by the incorporation of the proposed

1500-seat auditorium in the Chiu Lut-sau Secondary School. Work is

scheduled to start on the project early next year.

M. Todd said the proposed auditorium would be adequate for

local needs for the foreseeable future.

"When completed, the auditorium will provide the much-needed

facilities for the staging of concerts and plays in Yuen Long and should

no doubt help to realise the full potential of the committee," Mr. Todd said.

He praised the committee

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now in its 11th year

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for its

promotion of the arts and cultural activities in the district.

"Besides satisfying the needs of the local community in the

fields of cultural and artistic pursuits, the Yuen Long District Arts

Committee, being the first of its kind in the New Territories, set an

example for other districts of what can be done in these fields by

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concerted efforts of the local community, he said.

"The result has been the formation of similar organisations

in other Now Territories districts,"

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