MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1982
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SHA TIN MARKET STALLS LEASED
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ALL ELEVEN MINI-STALLS AND MARKET STALLS AT SHA TIN MARKET WERE LEASED AT ABOVE THE UPSET PRICE AT A PUBLIC AUCTION TODAY (MONDAY).
THE AUCTION, ORGANISED BY THE URBAN SERVICES OFFICE OF SHA TIN, WAS HELD AT THE LEK YUEN COMMUNITY HALL AT LEK YUEN ESTATE, SHA TIN.
MOST OF THE STALLS FETCHED UNEXPECTEDLY HIGH PRICES, SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
THE TOP PRICE FOR SEVEN MINI-STALLS SELLING WET GOODS WAS $5 350 AND THE LOWEST WAS $1 760. THE UPSET PRICE WAS $750.
BIDDERS OFFERED $5 500 AND $5 200 TO RENT TWO STALLS SELLING FISH, COMPARED WITH THE UPSET RENTAL OF $2 000.
THE TRADESMAN'S STALL AND THE NEWSPAPER STALL, WERE LEASED FOR A MONTHLY RENTAL OF $2 200 AND $5 150 RESPECTIVELY, AGAINST THE UPSET PRICES OF $720 AND $3 000.
SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS CAN START OPERATING THEIR BUSINESS ON MARCH 1 FOR A CONTRACT PERIOD OF THREE YEARS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
ACCIDENT FREE AWARDS FOR NTSD DRIVERS
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THIRTY-SEVEN DRIVERS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT WERE AWARDED ACCIDENT FREE CERTIFICATES FOR THE IR CAREFUL DRIVING DURING THE LAST THREE TO FIVE YEARS.
THIRTY-THREE OF THEM WERE COMMENDED FOR DRIVING REFUSE COLLECTION VEHICLES, STREET WASHING VEHICLES, MECHANICAL STREET SWEEPERS AND OTHER VEHICLES WITHOUT CAUSING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS WHILE THE OTHER FOUR WERE FOR THREE YEARS.
THEY RECEIVED THEIR AWARDS FROM THE DIRECTOR OF NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES, MR JIMMY SWEETMAN, IN A PRESENTATION CEREMONY TODAY AT THE KOWLOON REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
PRESENTING THE CERTIFICATES, MR SWEETMAN COMMENDED THE DRIVERS FOR THEIR ACCIDENT FREE RECORDS DURING THE SPECIFIED PERIOD.
MR SWEETMAN ALSO EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT THE DRIVERS WOULD CONTINUE THEIR GOOD DRIVING PRACTICE.
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