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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1979

MORE OPPORTUNITIES NEEDED FOR STUDENTS TO STUDY ENVIRONMENT

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MORE JOINT EFFORTS SHOULD BE MADE BY THE ADVOCATES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO DO FIELD WORK, MRS. LOUISE MOK, DEPUTY CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

SHE WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF A SEMINAR ON +LICHEN GROWTH AND AIR POLLUTION+ AT WHICH THE RESULTS OF AN AIR POLLUTION SURVEY BY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE ANNOUNCED.

MRS. MOK TOLD THE GATHERING THAT ALL THE AVAILABLE PERIODS FOR FIELD STUDIES BY SCHOOL GROUPS IN THE 1979-80 SESSION AT THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S FIELD STUDIES CENTRE IN SAI KUNG HAD BEEN FULLY BOOKED,

+THIS IS A CLEAR INDICATION THAT THE INTEREST IN FIELD STUDIES AMONG HONG KONG STUDENTS IS TREMENDOUS, SHE SAID.

OVER THE YEARS DETERMINED EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO INTRODUCE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS IN THE SCHOOLS.

+THE PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ARE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AT EVERY LEVEL FROM PRIMARY 1 TO UPPER VI AND IN VARIOUS SUBJECT DISCIPLINES INCLUDING THE SCIENCES, SOCIAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY, MRS. MOK SAID.

THE SEMINAR WAS HELD IN THE SCHOOL HALL OF THE TRUE LIGHT GIRLS' COLLEGE IN WATERLOO ROAD, KOWLOON.

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LADY CATER OPENS FLOWER FESTIVAL AT OCEAN PARK

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LADY CATER, WIFE OF THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR JACK CATER, TODAY (SATURDAY) OPENED THE FLOWER FESTIVAL AT OCEAN PARK.

IN HER SPEECH, LADY CATER TOLD THE LARGE GATHERING SHE HAD A PARTICULAR PERSONAL INTEREST IN THE OCEAN PARK.

SHE RECALLED1 +MANY YEARS AGO. A MAN CALLED DEREK BROMHALL JOINED MY HUSBAND IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG'S FISHERIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AND IT WAS HE WHO FIRST TOLD US OF THE 'WARM SPRING' WHICH IS TO BE

FOUND ON THIS COAST JUST BELOW THE COUNTRY CLUB,

+ IT WAS ALSO HE WHO FIRST HAD THE DREAM OF MAKING THIS AREA INTO A PLACE FOR THE SORT OF OCEAN PARK TO BE FOUND IN FLORIDA AND VANCOUVER AND, TO THIS END WORKED HARD AND LONG TO HAVE THIS GREAT ENTERPRISE COME ABOUT.+

LADY CATER SAID DR. BROMHALL LEFT HONG KONG ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO AND SADLY HAS NOT YET BEEN BACK TO SEE HIS DREAM COME TRUE.

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