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Hong Kong Gurkha sets "impossible" record

A Gurkha officer based in Hong Kong has broken all known records in the British Army's premier shooting competition, completed at Bisley, Surrey, southern England today (Thursday), by winning the Queen's Medal for an unprecedented third time - a feat previously considered impossible.

Captain Dharmendra Gurung was already a legend in the Army for becoming the first man ever to win the coveted Medal - which marks its holder as the best shot in the British Army - twice. This week he astounded experts by becoming the first man ever to win it three times the shooting equivalent of three successive holes in one on the world's most difficult golf course.

The contest for the Queen's Medal involves several different competitions, all using rifles, spread over a period of three days.

Captain Gurung is the Resettlement Office with 1st Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, at Malaya Lines, Sek Kong. He is due to retire from the Army next

year.

Other Hong Kong units have also done well in this year's competition. Lance Corporal Yan Suk-yin of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) won the Territorial Army Women's Pistol Competition. The Hong Kong Military Service Corps was 4th in the Regular Army Pistol Competition, and the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers), 4th in the TA Pistol Competition.

End/Thursday, July 6, 1995

1995 Outstanding Home Economics Students Award Scheme

The Assistant Director of Education Department (Chief Inspector of Schools), Mr Ho Che-leung, officiate on Saturday (July 8) at the prize-presentation ceremony of the 1995 Outstanding Home Economics Students Award Scheme.

The scheme aims at promoting secondary students' interests in Home Economics and developing their appreciation of the value of the subject especially in meeting their future personal and family needs.

The theme of this year's scheme is "Home Economics and I". More than 60 students from 49 secondary schools took part in the scheme.