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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1991

THAT

SCHOOLS WOULD EXPLAINED REPEATED

RECENT

SOME ALLEGATIONS IN RESPONSE TO IGNORE THE SECONDARY 6 ADMISSION PROCEDURES, THE SPOKESMAN THAT THE SYSTEM WAS THE RESULT OF MONTHS OF DISCUSSIONS AND CONSULTATIONS WITH MAJOR SCHOOL COUNCILS AND SPONSORING BODIES.

WAS

THERE "THEY ALL AGREED THAT

NO BETTER ALTERNATIVE FAIRNESS TO ALL INTENDING SECONDARY 6 APPLICANTS,

H

WAS

HE SAID.

DESIGNED

6 THE SECONDARY

ADMISSION PROCEDURE PURPOSE OF MAXIMISING THE USE OF SECONDARY 6 PLACES TO COPE PLANNED TERTIARY EXPENSION AND TO REMOVE THE HECTIC PROBLEMS HAD PREVIOUSLY ENCOUNTERED IN SECURING A PLACE.

WITH

AND

FOR THE THE STUDENTS

OF THE

THE SUCCESS OF THE SYSTEM DEPENDED ON THE CO-OPERATION

ALREADY AGREED, THE SCHOOLS AND ON SCHOOLS FOLLOWING THE PROCEDURES SPOKESMAN SAID.

WOULD SCHOOLS

NEED VERY SOUND HE ADDED THAT SUPERVISORS OF

SCHOOLS, REASONS FOR DEPARTING FROM THE PROCEDURES AGREED BETWEEN THE THROUGH THEIR COUNCILS, AND THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

FIRST HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL HELD IN NEW YORK

THE

FROM SAN

PADDLING UNDER CLOUDY SKIES AND CHOPPY WATER CONDITIONS ON

RIVER IN HUDSON

NEW YORK, THE DRAGON BOAT

TEAM RACING STRONG CONTENDERS FROM PHILADELPHIA PULLED AHEAD OF TWO OTHER

A THRILLING FINAL DIEGO AND VIRGINIA TO BECOME CHAMPION PADDLERS IN TO NEW YORK'S FIRST HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL YESTERDAY (SUNDAY).

FOUGHT IT WAS A CLOSELY

RACE WITH ALL THREE DRAGON BOATS

FOR HALF ALMOST DRAGON HEAD TO DRAGON HRAD

THE

UNTIL COURSE

THEY

TFAM DIEGO

CAME SECOND BEGAN TO PULL AWAY FROM EACH OTHER, THE SAN WITH VIRGINIA CLOSELY BEREND.

THE THREE

TEAMS

EARLIER

TEAM

HRATS.

OTHERS

FROM PORTLAND,

UNIVERSITY

IN

WERE WINNERS OF

ALL-WOMEN'S COMPETING IN THE RACES INCLUDED AN OREGON, AND A TEAM OF GRADUATES FROM WESLEYAN CONNECTICUT.

IN THE

=

RACES

FROM THE FIRE STREET LIONS CLUB, THE THE HONGKONGBANK WHICH ENTERED TWO

NEW YORK CITY HAD SIX TEAMS DEPARTMENT, THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, THE WALL CHINATOWN PLANNING COUNCIL AND TEAMS.

KONG NEXT THE WINNING PHILADELPHIA TRAM WILL BE FLOWN TO HONG

CARRIER OF THE FESTIVAL, YEAR BY DELTA AIR LINES, THE OFFICIAL

то

COMPETE IN THE INTERNATIONAL RACES IN JUNE.

THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A HONG KONG DRAGON AND RACING REGATTA HAD BEEN HELD IN NEW YORK.

BOAT FESTIVAL

/IT WAS

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