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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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