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Friday, January 12, 1973
TIGHTER CONTROL OVER PRICES AT AIRPORT SHOPS
Serious View To Be Taken Of Overcharging
The Director of Civil Aviation is to be given wider powers to
control prices of goods sold by shops in the airport terminal building
in order to prevent overcharging.
A spokesman for the department warned today that in future
"a serious view" would be taken of such incidents and may result in the
termination of the tenancy of any shop guilty of overcharging.
He gave the warning when calling for tenders for 29 shop spaces
in the passenger terminal building.
The shop spaces are to be let for a period of three years and
are intended for the sale of such goods as radio and photographic equipment,
jewellery, publications, Chinese arts and crafts, pharmaceuticals and
tobacco, among others.
There are also spaces for money ahangers and the sale of insurance.
The spokesman said that while prospective tenderers could judge
the value of the accommodation by observing the volume of business presently
conducted, "this does not indicate the level of increases which can be
expected over the period of the agreement. **
He pointed out that about 94 per cent of the tourists visiting
Hong Kong each year arrived by air and the number was steadily increasing.
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