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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1989

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PREVIEW OF HONG KONG HERITAGE PAINTINGS

ABOUT ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE, AMONG THEM TREATED TO A PREVIEW OF AN EXHIBITION OF BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG THIS FRIDAY) EVENING.

ART LOVERS, WERE

MANY PAINTINGS

OF HISTORICAL

THE EXHIBITION AS PART OF THE CURRENT

A SERIES OF 50 PAINTINGS WERE COMMISSIONED FOR BY THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON HONG KONG HERITAGE.

THESE PAINTINGS FEATURE LANDMARK MONUMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS SET INTERESTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.

HISTORICAL

BUILDINGS AND ABOUT PRESERVING IN THE

THE PREVIEW WAS HOSTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES, MRS IRENE YAU, AT THE FRENCH MISSION BUILDING IN CENTRAL.

OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY,

RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR AUGUSTINE CHUI,

THE SECRETARY FOR NOT JUST FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF THE FEW COGNOSCENTI TRAINED TO RECOGNISE SAID THE BUILDINGS WERE THEIR MERIT AND COMPREHEND THE TRADITIONS THEY EXPRESSED.

"THEY ARE THERE FOR THE POPULACE AT LARGE," HE STRESSED.

"AND HAND IN HAND WITH OUR EFFORTS TO PRESERVE PURSUE A CONCERTED CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OUR YOUTH TO THE DISCOVERIES THEY CAN YIELD.

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THEM, WE MUST AND PARTICULARLY

BOARD HAD TAKEN THIS PUBLICITY AND EDUCATION

HE ADDED THAT THE ANTIQUITIES ADVISORY TASK VERY MUCH TO HEART AND HAD APPOINTED A COMMITTEE SPECIFICALLY TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVE.

MR CHUI POINTED OUT THAT HONG KONG'S HERITAGE ONE OF ARCHITECTURAL RELICS, ANTIQUITIES AND MUSEUMS.

**IT IS ENSHRINED IN OUR VERY HISTORY, IN ARTS AND THE CUSTOMS TO WHICH WE CLING.

WAR MORE THAN

OUR LANGUAGE, OUR

PRIORITY

ANTIQUITIES AND BE COUNTING ON THE

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY BOARD, MR EDWARD HO, SAID EDUCATION WAS A HIGH IN MEETING THIS OBJECTIVE THE BOARD WOULD INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS.

THE

IF

"WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS THE INCLUSION, PERHAPS WITHIN SOCIAL STUDIES SYLLABUS, OF A PROGRAMME ON HONG KONG'S HERITAGE,

SO FAR, THE BOARD HAS FORMALLY DECLARED 38 MONUMENTS FOR PERMANENT PROTECTION, WHILE MORE IDENTIFIED AS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE.

THAN

AND

BUILDINGS 100 HAVE BEEN

AS PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON CULTURAL PAINTINGS, BY HONG KONG ARTIST MR BRIAN TILBROOK, ARE INCORPORATED A NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

HERITAGE, THE

IN

IN

то

BY THE INFORMATION SERVICES ADDITION, THEY WILL ALSO BE FEATURED IN A SERIES OF 10 WALL CHARTS DEPARTMENT. BE DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS TO SERVE AS TEACHING AIDS.

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