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THURSDAY, SPTEMBER 26, 1991

IN SHA SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE $200.6 MILLION NEW HOME

DAVID SAID THE COUNCIL TIN FOR THE COUNCIL AND THE DEPARTMENT, SIR HAD ALSO BEEN A GOOD FORUM FOR PROVIDING THE PUBLIC A GREATER HOW THINGS WERE DONE.

SAY IN

"THE RESULTS OF THOSE EFFORTS ARE FOR ALL TO SEE AND ENJOY.

LOOKED

"ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO MANY PARTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES

THE NEW TERRITORIES LIKE A HUGE BUILDING SITE. TODAY YOU CAN SEE IN

LIKE DISTRICT SOME OF HONG KONG'S MOST IMPRESSIVE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

POOL COMPLEXES PARKS, INDOOR RECREATION CENTRES, LIBRARIES, SWIMMING AND TOWN HALLS.

ONES WHICH

NOT SHADED AND

SIR DAVID SAID WHILE THESE LARGE PROJECTS WERE THE WERE MOST NOTICEABLE, EQUALLY IMPORTANT WERE THE ONES WHICH MIGHT BE SO OBVIOUS THE MANY SMALLER, CUMULATIVE IMPROVEMENTS LIKE

COURTS AND PLAYGROUNDS, FOUNTAINS GAMES AREAS, SITTING-OUT GARDENS.

"THE

NEW

TOWNS

ARE

STILL GROWING.

BOTH

STANDARDS

AND

EXPECTATIONS ARE RISING.

REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

AND

THE AND "THE REGIONAL COUNCIL WILL HAVE MUCH WORK TO DO OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS IN BUILDING UP

HE SAID. IMPROVING FACILITIES IN THE NEW TERRITORIES,"

SIR DAVID SAID THE NEW BUILDING WOULD HELP THESE EFFORTS.

VARIOUS ELEMENTS "FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE COUNCIL AND THE

WILL BE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

OF

ONE

**

BUILDING.'

A VERY MODERN BUILDING,

HE

FOR

CALLING THE COMPOSITE STRUCTURE SAID IT WAS WELL-EQUIPPED WITH ALL THE FACILITIES THAT ARE NEEDED A LARGE ORGANISATION WITH AN IMPORTANT JOB TO DO.

COUNCIL, IN HIS WELCOMING SPEECH, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REGIONAL

FIVE YEARS

THE OF ITS EXISTENCE, MR CHEUNG YAN-LUNG, SAID IN THE

DISTRICTS OF THE COUNCIL HAD FIRMLY ROOTED ITS SERVICES IN THE NINE NEW TERRITORIES.

INTO A NEW WHILE THE NEW BUILDING MARKED THE COUNCIL'S ENTRY

SAID STRIKING DEVELOPMENTS HAD ALSO ERA OF DEVELOPMENT, MR CHEUNG TAKEN PLACE IN THE NINE DISTRICTS AND THE PUBLIC'S ASPIRATIONS STABLE AND PROSPEROUS LIFE HAD CONTINUED TO BE KEEN.

FOR A

ON THE NEW CHEK

'IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, AS A RESULT OF WORK LAP KOK AIRPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TOWNS SUCH AS TIN SHUI WAI AND

NEW OF THE

TERRITORIES WILL BE TSEUNG KWAN O, THE INFRASTRUCTURE

LIVING OF RESIDENTS WILL BE BETTER ESTABLISHED AND THE QUALITY OF FURTHER IMPROVED, HE SAID.

"

MR CHEUNG SAID BEFORE THE END OF THE 1990'S, THE POPULATION OF WOULD APPROACH THREE THE AREA UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL MILLION.

"IN ANTICIPATION