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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988

OTHER ITEMS ON THE AGENDA INCLUDE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO MAN KAM TO ROAD TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENT AND TO LUK KENG ROAD.

THE

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE MEETING OF THE NORTH DISTRICT BOARD'S TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM OF THE NORTH DISTRICT OFFICE, JOCKEY CLUB ROAD, FANLING TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY). THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 2 PM.

YEUNG HAU KUNG TEMPLE DECLARED AS HISTORICAL BUILDING

* * * *

LONG HAS THE YEUNG HAU KUNG TEMPLE AT TUNG TAU TSUEN IN YUEN

BUILDING BY THE ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY BEEN DECLARED AN HISTORICAL UNDER SECTION (3) OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS ORDINANCE.

THE TEMPLE IS BELIEVED TO BE OVER 200 WAS REBUILT IN ITS PRESENT FORM IN 1811.

YEARS OLD ALTHOUGH IT

IT WAS A TWO HALL HOUSES THE INCENSE TOWER.

SEPARATED BUILDING

BY A COURTYARD WHICH

THE ENTRANCE HALL AND THE POUR RED SANDSTONE, WHICH OF TEMPLES AND ANCESTRAL

THE DRUM TERRACES FRONTING COLUMNS SUPPORTING THE ROOF CANOPY ARE MADE OF IS TRADITIONALLY USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION HALLS.

ACCOMMODATES THE

MOULDED WALLS.

THE MAIN HALL, FLANKED BY TWO SIDE CHAMBERS, ALTARS AND DEITIES. THE EAVES ARE DECORATED WITH A TERRACOTTA FRIEZE, WHILE TRACES OF DELICATE PAINTINGS BORDER THE INTERNAL RICHLY CARVED WOODWORK, PARTICULARLY DOOR PANELS AND CEILING BRACKETS, ARE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE PREMISES.

RED

HAS

IS NOW IN A THE BUILDING, WHICH WAS LAST RENOVATED IN 1909, DILAPIDATED CONDITION, THERE IS A VERY MARKED DISPLACEMENT OF THE

DRUM

WHILE TERMITE THE

TERRACES SANDSTONE COLUMNS ON CAUSED THE ROOF TO COLLAPSE IN SOME PLACES.

WITH

THE

AND CONSENT

OF

DAMAGE

ALL

VILLAGERS, CO-OPERATION

SMOOTHLY, AND REPAIR WORK DECLARATION PROCEDURES WERE CARRIED OUT WOULD BE CARRIED OUT SOON BY THE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

HAU KUNG TEMPLE, THERE

APART FROM THIS NEWLY DECLARED YEUNG ARE SIX OTHER HAU WONG TEMPLES THROUGHOUT HONG KONG,

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