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Place was allocated on the basis of the applicants' Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) results under central allocation at Stage V.

If students are still unable to secure a place after the completion of Stage V, they may be able to get a place at the beginning of the new school year because some successful students may decide not to take up their places.

A list of schools with $6 vacancies will be displayed and updated weekly at all district education offices throughout September.

Students should apply to these schools direct but admission will be entirely at the schools' discretion.

Meanwhile, the department's central hotline, 2782 7037-9 and 2782 7340 and the 19 district education offices handled about 169 and 205 enquiries respectively on the Admission Procedure today. This brings to 1,086 and 2,257 the total number of enquiries made at the hotline and the district education offices.

At the same time, the Careers Education Centre had received 169 visitors and handled 161 telephone enquiries on matters relating to the release of the HKCEE results up to 5.30 pm today.

So far, 2,132 members of the public visited and 1,308 callers telephoned the centre since August 7 when the results of HKCEE were released.

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The weather of July

July was hotter and drier than normal. The mean temperature of 29.2 degrees was the sixth highest for the month of July.

The mean minimum of 27.1 degrees and the maximum of 34.3 degrees were the seventh and the ninth highest temperature respectively recorded for July.

The total rainfall of 230.3 millimetres in the month was 29 per cent below normal, making the accumulated rainfall since January 1 of 1,288.5 millimetres two per cent below the normal for the same period.