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Wednesday, May 31, 1972
INTER-INSTITUTIONAL SONG CONTEST
Programme To Promote Cultural Interest
About 200 trainees in correctional institutions maintained by
the Social Welfare Department and voluntary organisations will take part
in an inter-institutional song contest at the O Pui Shan Boys' Home at
2.00 p.m. on Friday, June 2.
The contest is sponsored by Miss Annie Chan Suet-man, Assistant
Director (Social Work), of the Social Welfare Department.
Participants will come from the Begonia Road Boys' Home, the
Castle Peak Boys' Home, the Ma Tau Wei Girls' Home, the Kwun Tong Hostel,
the O Pui Shan Boys' Home, and also from the Juvenile Care Centre and the
Society of Boys' Centres.
Popular Chinese folk songs have been selected for the contest,
and participants will compete in solo numbers as well as in choirs.
Adjudicators for the contest will be Misa Josephine Chan Suet-
ching and Mrs. Chen Liu Mu-lan, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer
and head of the Probation and Corrections Division.
Mr. Mak Wing-hong, Principal Social Welfare Officer (Correctional
Institutions), said today the main aim of the contest was to promote
interest in cultural activities, to develop an appreciation of music among
the trainees, and to discover "hidden talent" among them, so that future
leisure could be properly employed.
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