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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1987

GOVERNOR VISITS TAI PO

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LATEST

ΤΑΙ PO THIS (THURSDAY) THE GOVERNOR AND LADY WILSON VISITED

LEARN ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS AND AFTERNOON TO DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DISTRICT.

THE ACTING

SECRETARY

FOR

THE

DISTRICT

BY ACCOMPANIED

ARRIVED BY ADMINISTRATION, DR JAMES HAYES, SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON

HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE MET BY HELICOPTER AT ISLAND

THE DISTRICT DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR STEPHEN OFFICER, MR JOHN BURRE',T, AND WONG.

PANORAMIC

A WITH IN KWONG FUK ESTATE DEVELOPMENT BY THE PROJECT TOM ARMOUR.

SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON BEGAN THEIR VISIT VIEW OF TAI PO FROM THE ROOFTOP OF WANG YAN COURT AND WERE BRIEFED ON THE TAI PO NEW TOWN MANAGER (NEW TERRITORIES NORTHEAST), MR

THE GOVERNOR WAS TOLD THAT THE NEW

TO DEVELOP HECTARES AND THERE WERE PLANS ABOUT 300,000 PEOPLE BY THE MID-1990S.

TOWN COVERED ABOUT

THE

3,450

AREA TO

ACCOMMODATE

TO FU SHIN STREET, ONE THE PARTY WERE THEN DRIVEN

OF THE CHAIRMAN OF OLDEST STREETS IN TAI PO MARKET, AND WERE GREETED BY THÊ

RURAL. THE

COMMITTEE,

YUNG-SANG, TAI

MR PO

ITS 110

TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN, MR CHUNG YICK-MING AND MR TANG PUI-TAT.

SHOPS.

AND

THEY WALKED ALONG THE STREET AND STOPPED TO SEE SOME

OLD-STYLE

BUILT IN 1892 AND THEY ALSO VISITED MAN MO TEMPLE WHICH WAS

THE PARTY DECLARED A HISTORICAL BUILDING IN MAY 1984. IN THE TEMPLE,

AND ITS WERE MET BY CHAIRMAN OF TSAT YEUK RURAL COMMITTEE, MR MAK NAM TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN, MR LEE WO-SHUN AND MR LEE KON-WING.

LATER THE GOVERNOR WALKED ACROSS KWONG

NG,

OFFICER, MR

FRANCIS

FUK BRIDGE WHERE THE AND MR ARMOUR BRIEFED TSUEN RIVER AND

DISTRICT LANDS HIM ON THE STATE AND CAUSES OF POLLUTION IN THE LAM THE TOLO HARBOUR AS WELL AS MEASURES TAKEN TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION.

ΤΟ PROCEEDED

THE SALVATION FROM KWONG FUK BRIDGE THE PARTY

TAI YUEN ESTATE WHERE ARMY TAI YUEN YOUTH AND CHILDREN'S CENTRE IN

ATTENDING TRAINING COURSES AND THE GOVERNOR SAW YOUNGSTERS

TAKING

PART IN RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES.

THEY THEN TOURED THE TAI PO INDOOR SPORTS CENTRE.

SPORTS ASSOCIATION LI FOOK

LAM

ATTENDED A

LEADERS,

BEFORE THEY LEFT TAJ PO, SIR DAVID AND LADY WILSON

CENTRE WHERE THEY MET LOCAL TEA RECEPTION AT THE SPORTS MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT BOARD AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

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