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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1979

IT COMPRISES 20 FOUR-STOREY BLOCKS WITH A TOTAL OF 184 APARTMENT ACCOMMODATION IN AN EXQUISITE ENVIRONMENT, COMPLETE WITH A WIDE RANGE OF OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES INCLUDING TENNIS AND BADMINTON COURTS, SWIMMING POOLS, WATER SKIING AND MANY OTHERS.

MR. TODD ALSO SPOKE OF SOME OF THE OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS UNDER PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION ON LANTAU.

+AT DISCOVERY BAY, NOT FAR FROM HERE, AS YOU GET ON WITH THE SECOND STAGE OF OPERATION SEA RANCH, A VERY LARGE RESORT PROJECT IS BEING BUILT AROUND THE CORNER AT TAI LONG WAN, THE GOVERNMENT IS NEGOTIATING FOR ANOTHER RESORT- AND YOU MAY HAVE READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS RECENTLY OF YET ANOTHER PROPOSAL TO BUILD HOLIDAY HOMES AT SILVERMINE BAY FOR HONG KONG'S BURGEONING MIDDLE-CLASS POPULATION.+

IN OTHER PARTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES TOO, THE LEISURE INDUSTRY IS BOOMING, HE ADDED, AT SAI KUNG, THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION RECENTLY SIGNED THE FINAL CONDITIONS FOR A BOLD AND IMAGINATIVE MARINA-RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX AT HEBE HAVEN.

+YET THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE VERY SWEEPING ADVANCES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE PURSUITS FOR THE POPULATION AS A WHOLE.+

THESE, SAID MR. TODD, INCLUDE THE COUNTRY PARK PROGRAMME WHICH HAS ALREADY COVERED HALF OF HONG KONG'S MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMME WHICH HAS BROUGHT MUCH PLEASURE FOR SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE THE MOMENTUM OF THE PLANS FOR WELL-MANAGED CAMP SITES AND HOSTELS AND THE FACILITIES AND EXPERTISE OFFERED BY THE RECREATION AND SPORT SERVICE.

HE ADDED: THESE ARE BUT SOME OF THE MORE READILY-RECOGNISABLE ACHIEVEMENTS AND MUST BE SET IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REMARKABLE PROGRESS HONG KONG HAS MADE ON SO MANY FRONTS IN THE LAST DECADE.+

MR. TODD ALSO EXPRESSED HIS BELIEF THAT HONG KONG WAS IN THE MIDST OF ONE OF ITS MOST EXCITING AND CHALLENGING PHASES.

+WE HAVE A YOUNG, INTELLIGENT AND VITAL POPULATION WHICH IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY AWARE OF ITS ENVIRONMENT AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A COMMUNITY TOWARDS IT,+ MR. TODD SAID.

WE HAVE A YOUNG AND INTELLIGENT POPULATION WHOSE EXPECTATIONS NO LONGER END AT THE HORIZON OF SIMPLE SURVIVAL BUT WHOSE ASPIRATIONS EXTEND FAR BEYOND THOSE OF PREVIOUS GENERATION.

+LET US HOPE THIS IMPRESSIVE OPENING TODAY IS A SIGN TO THEM THAT THERE ARE A GREAT MANY PEOPLE IN HONG KONG DEVOTING A GREAT DEAL OF TIME, THOUGHT AND INITIATIVE TO THE FUTURE PROSPERITY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, HE ADDED.

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