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Thursday, December 13, 1973

OPENING OF SHA TIN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL

The newly completed $5.5 million Sha Tin Government Secondary

School will be officially opened tomorrow (Friday) by Mr. P.C. Woo, Senior

Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Chairman of the Board

of Education.

The school will provide accommodation for 920 pupils. At present

there are 480 pupils in Forms 1 and 2.

Apart from 24 normal classrooms, there are four laboratories,

seven specialist teaching rooms, an assembly hall, a covered playground

and a basketball court.

Before Mr. Woo unveils a plaque, the Director of Education, Mr. J.

Canning will invite the Principal Government Architect, Mr. C. Bratwell,

to hand the keys of the school to the Principal, Mr. J. Ormerod.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to have the opening ceremony

It begins at 4 p.m. tomorrow.

covered.

A 14-seater van for press representatives will

leave the Kowloon Sub-Pool behind the Tsim Sha Tsui

Post Office at 3 p.m. sharp for the school on Friday.

As seats are limited, you are invited to reserve

one for your representative by telephoning the Education Department's Information and Public Relations Section, Tel. 5-778311 ext. 155 as soon as possible.

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