SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1991
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UNIQUE EDUCATION CENTRE ON RURAL HERITAGE OPENS
*
OF
THE LIONS NATURE EDUCATION CENTRE IS A UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL FACILITY AND AN EXCELLENT DEMONSTRATION OF THE RICHES AND VARIETY
WILSON, SAID HONG KONG'S RURAL ENVIRONMENT, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID TODAY (SATURDAY).
OFFICIATING AT
CENTRE
THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE EDUCATION WHICH WAS THE JOINT EFFORTS OF THE LIONS CLUBS AND THE AGRICULTURE AND
SIR DEPARTMENT,
DAVID SAID IT
SOMETHING ALL FISHERIES INVOLVED COULD TAKE PRIDE IN.
WAS
AND
THOSE
IMAGINATION
EDUCATE
AND
SAID THE CENTRE WOULD CAPTURE THE INTEREST AND HE
OF
WITH HONG KONG'S COUNTRYSIDE THOSE UNFAMILIAR INSPIRE THOSE WHO WISH TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT.
"OUR COUNTRY PARKS HAVE BEEN CALLED THE 'LUNGS' OF HONG RIGHTLY SO. FOR THE MOST PART WE ARE URBAN LIVERS.
"ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOULD APPRECIATE THE ENVIRONMENT OF WHICH WE ARE PART. COUNTRY PARKS DO THAT.
"BUT
KONG.
NATURAL
WE MUST GO FURTHER. WE MUST ENCOURAGE AND EDUCATE, GOVERNOR STRESSED.
HE
THE
THE FIRST OF ITS
SAID THE LIONS NATURE EDUCATION CENTRE, KIND IN HONG KONG, WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THAT DIRECTION.
PAID SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO SIR DAVID ALSO THEIR PART IN DEVELOPING THIS PROJECT.
"ITS
COMPLETION
IS
A TRIBUTE TO THE
THE LIONS
CLUBS FOR
GENEROSITY
AND PUBLIC THE
SPIRITEDNESS OF SO MANY BUSINESSMEN IN HONG KONG; AND TO THE WAY LIONS CLUBS SO EFFECTIVELY TAP THAT GOODWILL.
WHOSE
"ALSO то THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
TO THIS
A CONTRIBUTION
WELCOME PROJECT IS SUCH
DEMONSTRATION
OVERSEAS SUPPORT," HE SAID.
OF
DEPARTMENT
SIR DAVID ADDED THAT THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES HAD WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE LIONS CLUBS TO DEVELOP THE CENTRE, SETTING THE COMMUNITY AN EXAMPLE OF CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND WHICH HE HOPED WOULD ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
THE
EXHIBITION
HALLS,
AN WERE MODERN
GOVERNOR NOTED THAT THE CENTRE'S IMPRESSIVE FOCAL POINT OF THE CENTRE'S MANY OTHER ATTRACTIONS, SPLENDID EXAMPLES OF HOW TRADITIONAL CHINESE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN COULD BE BLENDED TO GOOD EFFECT.
"THEY MADE AN IDEAL SETTING FOR THE STUDY OF HONG KONG'S HERITAGE," SIR DAVID SAID.
RURAL
/HE SAID
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