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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1985
DF9333
DF 1
DG990
DG5328
DG8388
CC5
DG628
DG3345
DH380
OF 100
DG6090
DG338
DG188
DG1
DH310
DG118
BL820
DD14
DG948
AC1999
PAYMENT MUST BE IN CASH OR BY CHEQUE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BIDDING, A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.
AND VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WOULD BE ASSIGNED ONLY TO VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAMES OF SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE AUCTION.
PROCEEDS OF THE AUCTION WILL, AS USUAL, GO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTER IES FUND.
THE AUCTION WILL BE THE 101ST ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973.
YUEN LONG PARKING METER DEPOT OPENS
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THE YUEN LONG PARKING METER MAINTENANCE DEPOT WAS OPENED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CHAIRMAN OF YUEN LONG DISTRICT BOARD'S TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE, MR MAN FOR-TAI AND THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT (NEW TERRITORIES), MR RICHARD MEAK IN.
THE DEPOT WOULD MAINLY HANDLE URGENT REPAIR AND ROUTINE SERVICING OF PARKING METERS INSTALLED IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.
A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT WAS TO PROVIDE MORE ON-STREET PARKING SPACES IF TRAFFIC CONDITIONS ALLOWED AND WHERE DEMAND WAS HIGH, THE USE OF THE SPACES WAS REGULATED BY METERS.
AT PRESENT, THERE WERE 796 METERS IN YUEN LONG AND 450 IN TUEN MUN, AND THE DEPARTMENT WAS PLANNING TO INSTALL
ANOTHER 34 PARKING METERS IN YUEN LONG BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, HE ADDED.
A TOTAL OF 2 958 PARKING METERS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED IN VARIOUS NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
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