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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1988

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9 FOR S-DESIGNATE VISITS FSD

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THE

FOR SECRETARY

SECURITY-DESIGNATE, MR

GEOFFREY

BARNES,

VISITED SEVERAL FIRE SERVICES ESTABLISHMENTS THIS (MONDAY) MORNING.

IT WAS PART OF A SERIES OF VISITS HE IS DEPARTMENTS.

MAKING TO

GOVERNMENT

MR JOHN ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES,

MARCH,

TOURED THE CHEUNG MR BARNES

SHA WAN AMBULANCE DEPOT, THE FIRE SERVICES HEADQUARTERS

THE COMMUNICATION CENTRE AND A

WORKSHOP.

BUILDING,

MR BARNES WAS BRIEFED ON THE VARIOUS ASPECTS DEPARTMENT AND SAW ITS OPERATIONS.

OF WORK OF

THE

ANCESTRAL HALL IN NT RESTORED

THE MAN LUN FUNG ANCESTRAL HALL IN SAN TIN, YUEN LONG, THE FINEST EXAMPLE OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN TERRITORIES, HAS NOW BEEN RESTORED.

ONE OF THE NEW

HELD AT OF THE MAN JASON YUEN,

TO MARK COMPLETION OF THE RESTORATION, A CEREMONY WAS THE WEEKEND. IT WAS ATTENDED BY THE MANAGERS AND ELDERS CLAN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ANTIQUITIES ADVISORY BOARD, MR AND OTHER BOARD MEMBERS.

ON THE GROUNDS OF ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND

DECLARED AS MERITS, THE BUILDING WAS

MONUMENT IN 1983 PROTECTION OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENT ORDINANCE.

THE FIRST STAGE OF RENOVATION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE

ARCHITECTURE UNDER THE

GOVERNMENT

IN 1983.

ROYAL HONG EARLY LAST

WITH A GENEROUS DONATION ABOUT $700, 000 FROM THE STARTED KONG JOCKEY CLUB, THE FINAL PHASE OF RESTORATION YEAR AND WAS COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE YEAR WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE CLAN MEMBERS AND. ADVICE OF THE ANTIQUITIES ADVISORY BOARD.

THE MAN CLAN CAME TO SETTLE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES JIANGXI PROVINCE IN THE 15TH CENTURY. DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE BUILT ANCESTRAL HALLS FOR THE WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND FOR CEREMONIES, AND MEETINGS OF VILLAGE ELDERS.

FROM

CLAN

FESTIVALS,

/THE MAN