MacPherson Stadium ( Chinese : 麥花臣室內體育館 ) is an indoor stadium that plays an important role to the development of youth recreation in Hong Kong . Located at Yim Po Fong Street, on the edge of Mong Kok , a high population density area, it has a capacity of 1,850.
5-413: Macpherson Stadium may refer to one of the following: Macpherson Stadium, Hong Kong Macpherson Stadium (North Carolina) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Macpherson Stadium . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
10-685: Is adjacent to the Macpherson Playground ( 麥花臣遊樂場 ) which has a football pitch and acts as a gathering place for youth. The stadium is managed by the Hong Kong Playground Association . It hosted the official 1983 Asian Basketball Championship . On 4 May 1929, the Hong Kong Government founded the Playing Fields Committee to provide social welfare services to local children, J. L. McPherson being among
15-697: The Children's Playground. Macpherson left for Canada in 1935, but lived out the remainder of his life in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and died there in 1947. The stadium was opened by the Governor Sir Alexander Grantham on 7 September 1953, while the foundation stone was laid by the Duchess of Kent . It held its last basketball tournament in October 2008 and was demolished for a residential complex and
20-505: The founding members. On 4 May 1933, when the Children's Playgrounds Association became a reality, McPherson was named Honorary Secretary. John Livingstone McPherson (1874-1947) had been a missionary assigned to Hong Kong from Canada, working for the YMCA of Hong Kong from 1905 to 1935. At his retirement, appreciation was shown for the work he had done in Hong Kong, among which was the founding of
25-511: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macpherson_Stadium&oldid=1007407157 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Macpherson Stadium, Hong Kong The stadium is within Queen Elizabeth II Youth Centre ( 伊利沙伯女皇二世青年遊樂場館 ). It
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