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Wednesday, February 14, 1973

2 N.T. SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE FIRST PRIZES

At Painting Exhibition

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The prize winners of the painting competition among primary and

secondary pupils sponsored by Indian Independence 25th Anniversary Committee

will receive their prizes in the main concourse of the Ocean Terminal on

Friday afternoon at the opening of a three-day exhibition of the best entries.

The Director of Education, Mr. J. Canning, will preside at the

ceremony and Mrs. M.G.R. Sandberg, wife of the General Manager of the Hong

Kong Branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, will distribute

the prizes.

Eighty schools took part in the contest. The 1,171 entries included

oil paintings, water colour, crayons, prints, and sketches. About 200 of

these have been selected for the exhibition.

The winning entries were selected by a panel of seven judges,

including Mr. Canning, Mr. John Warner, Curator of the City Museum and Art

Gallery, and Mr. Liu Kao-chung, Director of the Department of Fine Art of

the New Asia College.

The first, second and third prize winners in both the primary and

secondary groups will receive $1,000, $500 and $250 respectively.

The first prize in the primary group was won by Miss Wong Kwai-sun and

Miss Lui Wai-chun of the Hoh Fuk Tong School in Castle Peak while a group of

pupils in the Yuen Long Lutheran Middle School took the first prize in the

secondary section.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to have the opening of

the exhibition and the prize-giving ceremony covered on February 16 at 5.30 p.m.

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