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Wednesday, February 14, 1973
2 N.T. SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE FIRST PRIZES
At Painting Exhibition
Ex
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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