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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1980

TREE PLANTING

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HELPING NATURE DO ITS WORK ******

A TOTAL OF 140 TREES OF VARIOUS SPECIES WERE PLANTED AT RECREATION AND AMENITY AREAS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES TODAY (FRIDAY) DURING TREE PLANTING CEREMONIES HELD IN TAI PO, TUEN MUN,

AND TSUEN WAN/KWAI CHUNG.

THESE TREE PLANTINGS, PLANNED FOR EVERY NT DISTRICT BY THE NT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, ARE SPONSORED BY VARIOUS DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARDS AND LOCAL DIGNITARIES.

SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE ALSO INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EXERCISES.

THE DIRECTOR OF NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES, MR H.S. GREWAL SPEAKING AT THE TUEN MUN TREE PLANTING CEREMONY TODAY, SAID THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF HIGH QUALITY MUST BE SHARED BY THE COMMUNITY.

+THESE TREE PLANTING DAYS ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS AWAKENING THE PUBLIC'S CONCERN FOR CARE OF PLANTS IN PUBLIC AREAS,✦ HE SAID.

HE ADDED, WE CAN SUPPLEMENT THE CARE OF NATURE TO NOURISH AND NURTURE THEM ONLY UP TO A POINT, AND BEYOND THAT THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH THE COMMUNITY TO APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF THESE TREES, TO PROTECT THEM AGAINST VANDALISM, AND TO TREAT THEM WITH THE RESPECT WHICH THEY DESERVE.+

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE SOIL, LAY-OUT AND LANDSCAPE OF THE DISTRICTS, DIFFERENT SPECIES OF TREES WERE PLANTED, PLANTED TODAY WERE 60 SAPLINGS OF DELONIX REGIA AND JACARANDA ACUTIFOLIA AT THE OPEN SPACES IN FRONT OF HA HANG VILLAGE ALONG TING KOK ROAD, TAI PO- 30 KAPOK TREES AT SHEK PAI TAU PLAYGROUND, TUEN MUN, AND 50 BAUHINIA BLAKENA AT THE HILL SLOPE BOUNDED BY LAI KING HILL ROAD AND KWAI CHUNG ROAD.

REGIONAL COMMISSIONER, NORTHWEST, OF THE NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION, MR J.W. SWEETMAN, WHEN OFFICIATING AT THE TUEN MUN TREE PLANTING CEREMONY, SAID THAT THE TREES, APART FROM HAVING AMENITY VALUE, WOULD ALSO SERVE THE PURPOSES OF WIND BREAKING, SLOPE STABILISATION AND PROVIDING SHADE.

ALSO OFFICIATING AT THE TUEN MUN TREE PLANTING CEREMONY WERE MR BILLY C.L. LAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE TUEN MUN DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARD AND DISTRICT OFFICER (TUEN MUN), AND MR LAU WONG-FAT, CHAIRMAN OF THE TUEN MUN RURAL COMMITTEE.

THE TAI PO TREE PLANTING CEREMONY WAS OFFICIATED BY MR WONG YUEN-CHEUNG, CHAIRMAN OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK, WHILE THE TSUEN WAN/KWAI CHUNG TREE PLANTING CEREMONY WAS OFFICIATED BY MR HO TZE-PING, CHAIRMAN OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT SUB-COMMITTEE OF TSUEN WAN DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARD.

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