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Friday, November 9, 1973
SEVENTH INTER-INSTITUTION SPORTS MEET 1973
The seventh inter-institution sports meet for boys and girls
in institutions, run by the Social Welfare Department and voluntary
organisations, will be held on Sunday (November 11) at the Boundary
Street Public Sports Ground in Kowloon.
Some 200 competitors from seven institutions will be participating
Besides
in the various field and track events and invitation races.
the participants another 600 boys and girls will be there as spectators.
The institutions taking part in this sports meet are the Castle
Peak Boys' Home, the Begonia Road Boys' Home, the O Pui Shan Boys' Home,
the Ma Tau Wei Girls' Home and the Kwun Tong Hostel, all of which are
run by the Social Welfare Department. The others are the Society for
Boys Centres and the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre, both voluntary
organisations.
This sports meet is being sponsored by Mr. Lau Wong-fat, Chairman
of the Tuen Mun Rural Committee, who is this year's President of the
Executive Committee responsible for arranging the prograre. Members
of the Committee comprise representatives from the participating institutions
as well as senior officers of the Probation and Corrections Division of
the Social Welfare Department under which its institutions are operated.
On Sunday, the morning will be devoted to the opening ceremony
and the heats of the track event. The finals and invitation races followed
by a band performance, mass drill and the presentation of prizes will take
place in the afternoon:
/Guests invited