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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1990

HE ALSO

TELEVISION THANKED

LTD (TVB), FOR BROADCASTS

ITS THE YEARS IN PROMOTING THE CONTINUING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE OVER SCHEME AND SPREADING THE COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVATION MESSAGE.

UPON MEMBERS SPEAKING IN ONE VOICE WITH DR TSE, DR LEE CALLED

ΤΟ ANY ONE OF THE FORWARD

SIX DESIGNATED OF THE PUBLIC TO COME PLANTING SITES ON SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS BEFORE THE END OF TO PLANT HIS OR HER TREE.

LAUNCHING TODAY'S

CEREMONY

APRIL

WERE

OTHER GUESTS OFFICIATING AT THE COUNTRY PARKS BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR CARLOS CHEUNG; CHAIRMAN AND VICE- AND MR LO TIN-HOI; TVB GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF FHKHOAG, MR LEE CHI-WAI MANAGER, MR KELLY CHENG; AND MISS HONG KONG, MISS MONICA CHAN.

ON THE SAME OCCASION, MR CARLOS CHEUNG PRESENTED PLAQUES TO 10 "FOREST ENTHUSIASTIC HIKING GROUPS WHICH HAD JOINED THE COUNTRY PARKS

HAD COMMITTED ADOPTION SCHEME" SINCE ITS INAUGURATION LAST YEAR

IN THE THEMSELVES TO PLANTING AND LOOKING AFTER THEIR "FOREST PLOTS" NEXT FIVE YEARS.

THESE PLAQUES WOULD BE PUT UP LATER AT THEIR "FOREST PLOTS" MARK THEIR EFFORT.

THE CEREMONY,

TO

OFFICIATING PARTY AFTER THE RIBBON-CUTTING

BY LEADING FORMALLY STARTED THE 1990 COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SCHEME ABOUT 100 OTHER GUESTS IN PLANTING THE FIRST TREES OF THE YEAR.

TSE

ALSO

A UNVEILED DR COMMEMORATE THIS YEAR'S EVENT.

PLAQUE

AT

THE

PLANTING

THE PARTY THEN PROCEEDED TO SEE HOW HIKERS AND SCHOOL CO-OPERATED IN TURNING THE BARREN HOI HA AU SITE INTO A SLOPE WITH SEEDLINGS OF ACACIA CONFUSA AND TRISTANIA CONFERTA, SPECIES USED IN AFFORESTATION.

SITE

ΤΟ

CHILDREN COVERED

COMMON TREE

TONG, YUEN LONG

ANNUALLY, SEEDLINGS

THEY LEARNT THAT AFD'S TREE NURSERIES IN TAI

PRODUCED SOME 800,000 AND IN NAM SHAN, LANTAU ABOUTHALF OF WHICH WERE FOR USE IN COUNTRY PARKS.

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ON ALL SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS BETWEEN MARCH 30, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC VISITING ANY OF THE SIX DESIGNATED

WITH WILL BE PROVIDED PARKS COUNTRY SITES IN VARIOUS SEEDLINGS AND TOOLS FOR PLANTING WHILE AFD STAFF WILL BE GIVE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

THIS

YEAR'S

AND APRIL PLANTING

FREE TREE ON HAND ΤΟ

COMMUNITY

TREE PAK TAM

THE SIX SITES EARMARKED FOR PLANTING ACTIVITIES ARE LOCATED IN TAI MO SHAN, TAI MEI TUK, CHUNG, QUARRY BAY, MUI WO AND CLEAR WATER BAY RESPECTIVELY.

ORGANISED GROUPS CAN MEANWHILE, TREE PLANTING BY SCHOOLS AND BE ARRANGED BY COUNTRY PARKS STAFF BETWEEN 10 AM AND 4 PM ON WEEKDAYS AND ON WEEKENDS THROUGHOUT MARCH AND APRIL WITH PRIOR BOOKINGS.

ENQUIRIES ABOUT

THE

SCHEME

CAN

BE

CONSERVATION EDUCATION UNIT ON TEL. 7332121.

DIRECTED

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TO AFD'S