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URBCO SPENDS $11.1 MILLION ON DISTRICT SPORTS EVENTS

COUNCIL

WILL

CENT PER

THE URBAN

ΤΟ MILLION

AN ORGANISE 8 544 RECREATION AND SPORTS EVENTS IN THE URBAN

IN INCREASE OF 26 AND 7.7

FUNDING AND THE NUMBER OF

SPEND

$11.1

THIS YEAR

AREA

ACTIVITIES RESPECTIVELY OVER LAST YEAR.

THE COUNCIL'S LEVEL AND TO ENABLE

THE

SUB-COMMITTEE,

IS IN LINE WITH "THIS $2.3 MILLION INCREASE COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE SPORTS AT THE GRASSROOTS MORE RESIDENTS TO TAKE PART IN RECREATION AND SPORTS ACTIVITIES," CHAIRMAN OF THE

SPORTS COUNCIL'S

AND ACTIVITIES MR RONNIE WONG, SAID TODAY.

"LAST YEAR, THE COUNCIL SPENT $8.8 MILLION DISTRICT EVENTS.

ΤΟ ORGANISE 7 929

THAT THERE WILL BE MORE "THE EXTRA FUNDING THIS YEAR MEANS

VARIOUS ACTIVITIES ORGANISED IN

FIELDS, INCLUDING SOME INNOVATIVE SPORTS ACTIVITIES SUCH AS GATEBALL, INDOOR ARCHERY AND MINI-TENNIS.

TO FOSTER BETTER LINKS WITH DISTRICT BOARDS AND TO MAKE USE RESOURCES AVAILABLE THROUGH DISTRICT SPORTS ORGANISATIONS, A TOTAL

DISTRICT BOARDS 291 JOINT PROJECTS WITH LOCAL ORGANISATIONS AND PLANNED FOR 1989/90.

OF

OF

ARE

THESE INCLUDE DISTRICT COMPETITIONS, LEARN-TO-PLAY COURSES, DAYS AND DISTRICT FESTIVALS.

FUN

OTHER PROGRAMMES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

SQUASH, BADMINTON AND TENNIS

302 SQUASH,

332 BADMINTON

AND

382 TENNIS COURSES (COMPARED WITH 268 SQUASH, TENNIS COURSES IN 1988/89).

299

BADMINTON AND

367

152 832

FITNESS AND

PARTICIPANTS (COMPARED PARTICIPANTS IN 1988/89).

DANCE

4 857

FITNESS

AND

3 218 WITH

DANCE COURSES COURSES FOR

FOR 93 438

LEARN-TO-SWIM SCHEME

PARTICIPANTS

1 512 COURSES FOR 30 941

(COMPARED WITH 1 511 COURSES FOR 28 669 PARTICIPANTS IN 1988/89).

DISABLED

J

120

7

166

IN

ACTIVITIES FOR THE

ACTIVITIES FOR

PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS (COMPARED WITH 109 ACTIVITIES FOR 5 268 1988/89).

ACTIVITIES

FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

— —

503

ACTIVITIES

FOR

18 904

IN

PARTICIPANTS (COMPARED WITH 382 ACTIVITIES FOR 14 612 PARTICIPANTS 1988/89).

MR WONG

THE THAT

LEI

YUE

SAID

MUN ENTERTAIN A TOTAL OF 47 000 DAY CAMPERS AND 48 000 IN 1989/90.

PARK

IS OVERNIGHT CAMPERS

EXPECTED

то

NOVEMBER, IS

THE HE ADDED.

LAST OPENED

"THE PARK WHICH IS OFFICIALLY FIRST CAMPING FACILITY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE COUNCIL,

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