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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1988
SAID ALL STAMPS WERE SPECIAL MACHINES
TURNING TO THE PRINTING WORK, MR LEUNG PRINTED OVERSEAS AS THE PRINTING OF STAMPS REQUIRED WHICH WERE NOT AVAILABLE IN HONG KONG.
"THE
PRINTER
IS SELECTED THE UNITED
BY TENDER. KINGDOM
IS
THE CROWN AGENTS
ΤΟ ENTRUSTED
INVITE
PHILATELIC CO. LTD IN TENDERS FROM PRINTERS ALL OVER THE WORLD," HE CONTINUED.
MONTHS AFTER. THE ALL SPECIAL STAMPS ARE ON SALE FOR ONLY 15
THE FIRST DATE OF ISSUE AND ARE AVAILABLE IN ALL POST OFFICES WITHIN MONTH.
——
POST POST
GRANVILLE
CONFINED то SIX PHILATELIC AFTER THIS PERIOD, SALE IS OFFICES THE PHILATELIC CENTRE AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, AND
PEAK, TSIM SHA TSUI, OFFICES AT BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, THE ROAD AND THE AIRPORT FOR ANOTHER 14 MONTHS,
——
"AFTER THAT,
ALL SPECIAL
++
DESTROYED, THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.
-
STAMPS
THAT
ARE
UNSOLD WILL
BE
CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR FEBRUARY RELEASED
*
THE
CENSUS AND STATISTICs
DEPARTMENT
TODAY
PUBLISHED THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR FEBRUARY 1988.
(WEDNESDAY)
100) FOR FEBRUARY INCREASES OF 6.9 PER CENT AND
THE CPI (A) AND CPI (B) (OCT. 84/SEP. 85 = 1988 WERE BOTH 114.0, REPRESENTING 6.8 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY OVER FEBRUARY 1987.
1988
AND BEARING
IN MIND
COMPARED WITH JANUARY COMPARISON MAY BE AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS, THE CPI (A) BY 1.3 PER CENT AND THE CPI (B), BY 1.1 PER CENT.
THAT
THIS INCREASED
CPI (B) FOR THE 12 MONTHS RESPECTIVELY, WERE 5.9 PER
THE AVERAGE CPI (A) AND AVERAGE ENDED FEBRUARY 1988, AT 110.5 AND 110.7 CENT AND 5.7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE FOR THE MONTHS ENDED FEBRUARY 1987.
ENDED FEBRUARY
DURING THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD SEASONALLY ADJUSTED CPI (A) AND CPI (B) BOTH INCREASED AT RATE OF 0.6 PER CENT PER MONTH.
THE CPI (A) AND THE PATTERNS OF 50 PER CENT
12
THE
1988, AN AVERAGE
EXPENDITURE
1984/85
CPI (B) ARE BASED ON THE
30 AND
PER CENT, RESPECTIVELY, OF URBAN WHICH KONG, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEY.
HOUSEHOLDS
IN
HONG
WERE
DERIVED
FROM THE
/THE CPI