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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1989

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GOVT SUPPORTS SPORT AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT

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PROVIDE

THE

AVAILABLE, SECRETARY FOR MUNICIPAL

THE GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING SPORT AND RECREATION

RESOURCES IN HONG KONG AND WILL, WITHIN THE NECESSARY IMPETUS FOR SUCH DEVELOPMENT, THE SERVICES, MR AUGUSTINE CHUI, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

TOTAL Or $0.51 AT A PRESENTATION CEREMONY, MR CHUI AWARDED A

SPORTS MILLION FROM THE

AID FOUNDATION (SAF) TO 34 LOCAL ELITE TO UNDERGO A ATHLETES FOR THEM

TRAINING LONG TERM

PROGRAMME IN PREPARATION FOR THE ASIAN GAMES AND THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES TO BE NEXT YEAR.

HELD

OF

MR CHUI EXPRESSED HIS ADMIRATION FOR THE OFFICIALS GOVERNING BODIES OF SPORTS IN HONG KONG, SAYING THAT THESE VOLUNTEERS,

ON A PART-TIME WHO WORKED

BASIS, WERE THE BACKBONE OF SPORTS DEVELOPMENT.

"WE OWE VERY MUCH TO ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE MADE.

THESE

DEVOTED SPORTS LEADERS

FOR

THE

ON THEM AND TO OUR

PLACED "THE GOVERNMENT IS AWARE OF THE WORKLOAD

YEARS HAS OVER THE PAST

PROVIDED ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT GOVERNING BODIES OF SPORTS, IN ADDITION TO FUNDING," HE POINTED OUT.

WHILE CONGRATULATING THE ELITE ATHLETES ON THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, MR CHUI COMMENDED THEIR COMMITMENT TO THEIR CHOSEN SPORT.

"STEADY AND REGULAR ATTENDANCE IN TRAINING, BEING ABLE TO

PUTTING IN ONE'S VERY ACCEPT SUGGESTIONS AND CRITICISMS,

ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS FOR COMPETITIONS ARE BUT A FEW

NOTED.

CEREMONY, ALSO SPEAKING AT THE PRESENTATION

BEST IN SUCCESS, HE

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THE CHAIRMAN OF

THE SPORT, MR F.K. HU, SAID

STANDARD THE COUNCIL FOR RECREATION AND

IMPROVING IN OF HONG KONG ATHLETES HAD BEEN

RECENT YEARS AND OUR SPORTSMEN HAD PERFORMED WELL IN MANY MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.

IN

HELD "IN THE NINTH COMMONWEALTH TABLE-TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

AND FEMALE PLAYERS MARCH THIS YEAR, OUR MALE

WON FOUR GOLD, ONE SILVER AND THREE BRONZE MEDALS.

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"IN OTHER SPORTS LIKE BADMINTON, TENPIN BOWLING AND SHOOTING, OUR ATHLETES HAVE ALSO PERFORMED WELL IN VARIOUS ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, HE ADDED.

THE 34 ELITE ATHLETES, WHO WERE EACH AWARDED $15,000, CAME FROM 11 LOCAL SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS

THE HONG KONG

ATHLETIC AMATEUR ASSOCIATION, BADMINTON ASSOCIATION, CYCLING ASSOCIATION, AMATEUR ASSOCIATION, FENCING ASSOCIATION, AMATEUR GYMNASTIC ASSOCIATION, JUDO AMATEUR

ASSOCIATION, RIFLE ASSOCIATION, AMATEUR SWIMMING ASSOCIATION, TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION AND WUSHU ASSOCIATION.

ROWING

ALSO

ATTENDING

CULTURE, MR

THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY

WERE TODAY

THE CLIVE OXLEY; AND THE

COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CHAIRMAN OF THE SPORTS AID COMMITTEE, DR DAVID HO.

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