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Tuesday, July 18, 1972

HONG KONG CHILDREN AWARDED PRIZES IN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION

Four Hong Kong children have won first class prizes in an

international painting contest held in the city of Hyvinkaa in Finland.

Nine other awards were presented to outstanding paintings

from out of the 50 entries submitted by Hong Kong.

The contest was open to children under 14 and the theme was

'My Home Area': people at work, at home, in the fields, in factories,

fishing etc.

Prize-winning paintings were displayed in an exhibition which

was opened by the Vice Secretary General of the United Nations, Mrs.

Helvi Sipila.

The exhibition was given wide publicity by Finnish television

and radio and will be taken round the country in the near future.

The four first prize winners are:

Wong Kar-shan (girl, aged 14) Jockey Club Government Secondary

Technical School.

St. Paul's School (Lam Tin)

Katty Tung (girl, aged 14)

Cheung Chi-sung (boy, aged 9) Kei Chun School

Tip Mui-sing (boy, aged 7)

Building Contractors' Association School.

Announcing the results of the contest today, a spokesman for the

Art and Craft Section of the Education Department said it was not the first

time local children had won international renown through their extremely

high standard of art work.

Note to Editors: A list of all the Hong Kong prize winners is distributed

separately in the G.I.S. press boxes tonight.

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