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Activities to arouse awareness in local heritage
A series of summer activities are being organised by the Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) of the Broadcasting, Culture and Sport Branch to arouse public awareness in local heritage.
These include an exhibition of 39 drawings by students on local monuments at the AMO gallery, 136 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. They feature both Western and Chinese historical buildings which have been drawn in various materials including acrylic, water colour, Chinese ink, poster colour and crayon.
The drawings are the winning entries of a competition held earlier as part of the territory-wide School Heritage Festival.
The exhibition will end on August 19 and admission is free. Memorandum clips and magnetic puzzles featuring historical buildings are distributed as souvenirs to visitors.
To complement the exhibition, a free drawing tour to the Royal Observatory in Tsim Sha Tsui will be organised on July 27 from 9 am to 12.30 pm. Families who wish to take part in the event should apply to AMO in person on a first-come-first- served basis. Enquiries can be made on 2721 2326.
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Construction output for first quarter of 1996
The gross value of construction work, in nominal terms, performed by main contractors (including general and special trade contractors) amounted to $27.5 billion in the first quarter of 1996, according to the results of the Quarterly Survey of Construction Output released today (Friday) by the Census and Statistics Department.
This represented an increase of 20.6% over the same quarter last year.
Based on the provisional estimate, the gross value of construction work, measured at constant (1990) market prices, performed in the first quarter of 1996 increased by 12.1% over the same quarter last year.