XN000022-1984-11-26 — Page 8

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1984

OLD CLAN HALL TO BE RESTORED

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AN EARTHBREAKING CEREMONY WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 29) MORNING TO MARK THE START OF RESTORATION WORK ON THE MAN SHEK TONG ANCESTRAL HALL IN SHEUNG SHUI.

THE CLAN

MAN SHEK TONG IS THE ANCESTRAL HALL - CHI TONG OF THE LIU CLAN, ONE OF THE FIVE LARGEST CLANS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. ESTIMATES IT WAS BUILT IN 1751.

THE RESTORATION WORK, COSTING ABOUT $500 000 IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY MARCH NEXT YEAR. MR IAN WOTHERSPOON DISTRICT OFFICER, TOGETHER WITH MR LIU KAU-LUNG, HEAD OF THE CLAN, WILL PERFORM TRADITIONAL RITES AT THE CEREMONY.

THE DATE WAS CHOSEN BY FUNG SHUI EXPERTS AS MOST SUITABLE FOR THE EVENT.

A WORKING GROUP HAD BEEN FORMED LAST YEAR BY THE NORTH DISTRICT OFFICE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBLE RESTORATION OF THE HALL, WHICH WAS LATER DECLARED AN HISTORICAL BUILDING.

IN THE WORKING GROUP, CHAIRED BY MR WOTHERSPOON, WERE GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTS, CURATORS, VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, SUCH AS THE HONG KONG TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

150-STRONG CHILDREN'S CHORUS TO PERFORM

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MORE THAN 20 WESTERN AND CHINESE SONGS WILL BE FEATURED IN THE CONCERT TO BE HELD BY THE 150-STRONG KWUN TONG CHILDREN'S CHORUS IN THE CITY HALL CONCERT HALL ON THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 29) EVENING, STARTING AT 8 O'CLOCK.

SET UP IN 1978, THE CHILDREN'S CHORUS HAS BEEN PERFORMING IN PUBLIC ANNUALLY SINCE THEN. AND IT HAS RECENTLY FORMED ANOTHER JUNIOR CHOIR,

THE CHILDREN'S CHORUS HAS BEEN PRACTISING HARD UNDER THE MUSIC DIRECTOR, MR Y.Y. WONG, FOR THE COMING CONCERT.

APART FROM FOSTERING MUSIC IN THE DISTRICT, THE CHORUS HAS TAKEN PART IN MANY CHARITY FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING FUND-RAISING CONCERTS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND MACAU IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

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