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Kingswood Union responds
Responding to last week's caption of the photograph of the 'Kingswood Union Centenary gathering' published in The Sunday Times, Joint Secretary of the Kingswood College Union M.A. Saleemdeen states:

I wish to inform you, on behalf of the Programme Committee, that the students were not instructed to be present at 11.00 am as your paper has erroneously reported. The guests and the students were requested to be in their allocated places by 1.30 pm, as the programme was to commence at 2.00 pm. It commenced on time with the opening of the Swimming Pool by Post and Telecommunication Minister D.M.Jayaratne and Central Province Governor Monty Gopallawa. The Cultural Programme was to begin by 2.30 pm and was to continue till 4.30 pm. The President was scheduled to arrive at 4.15 pm. She arrived 45 minutes late at 5.00 pm.

It should also be mentioned that the Presidential Security Division co-operated with the Organising Committee without any fuss, allowing any person who wished to go out from the hall, and if he or she wished to come back, that person was taken in following the routine security check.

Our reporter says: Students had arrived around 11.00 a.m. because they had been asked to be present at that time by whoever, and after they had entered the hall were not allowed to leave. The President's Office had informed journalists that the President's arrival time was 2.00 pm. Some of the old boys were seen leaving due to the delay.

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