15.
"During labour commencement, 98 prisoners refused to work whereas prisoners of other work groups slowed down their pace of work.
"Despite active counselling by the management, the prisoners continued their 'protest' and eventually 343 prisoners were separated and located in their respective wards.
"The inmates were informed that it is the department's policy that no prisoner would be segregated without good reason or on grounds of ethnic origin.
"This (Wednesday) morning, 319 prisoners (including the 98 inmates who have been put on report for disciplinary action) refused to carry out work as instructed by the management.
"They were issued with warnings that if their action continued they will all be disciplined. Subsequently, all prisoners returned to work."
End/Wednesday, September 13, 1995
Over 6,700 agreements lodged with Land Registry in August
A total of 6,762 sale and purchase agreements for building units, which include both residential and non-residential properties, were lodged with the Land Registry last month (August 1995).
The figure represents a decrease of 23.7 per cent from that of July this year, and an 6.4 per cent increase compared with August last year.
The total consideration of these agreements is $18.54 billion, down by 12.5 per cent and 10 per cent as compared with the amounts for July 1995 and August 1994 respectively.
The figures are contained in the monthly statistics released today (Wednesday) by the Land Registry on deeds relating to property transactions received for registration in the Urban and New Territories Land Registries last month. Relevant statistics for July 1995 and August 1994 were provided for comparison.