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Saturday, August 18, 1973
CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGN COMPETITION FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED
Judging of entries for 1973/74 Christmas card design competition
organised for mentally handicapped people will take place on Tuesday,
August 21,
The competition is sponsored by the New Life Paychiatric Rehabilitation
Association, a government subvented voluntary welfare agency, and was open
to all mental or former mental patients from clinics, hospitals, and so on,
The judging and selection of winning entries will be held at the
Social Welfare Department's Lady Trench Training Centre at 44, Oi Kwan Road,
Wanchai, Hong Kong.
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It will be followed by a special lecture on "Painting as a Self-
expression of Mental Patients" by Dr. Q.Y. Chung of Kowloon Hospital's
Psychiatric Unit.
A spokesman for the Association said the winning entries would be
produced into Christmas cards which would be sold to raise money towards
the Association's multi-purpose centre in Nam Cheong Street, Kowloon.
This centre will provide half-way house, hostel and occupational
rehabilitation facilities in one central locality on a 60,000 square foot site.
Note to Editors:
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You are cordially invited to cover the selection of winning entries in the competition on Tuesday, August 21 at the Lady Trench Training Centre at 44, Oi Kwan Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. It will begin at 5:45 p.m.
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