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Retiring from the Council are Ms Audrey Eu Yuet-mee, QC, Ms Sara Ho Suk- ching, Dr Law Cheung-kwok, Mr Lee Kam-hung, Mr Man Mo-leung, Dr Anthony Ng Sung-man, Mr Clement Tao Kwok-lau and Mrs Yuen Chan Po-hing.
"We are grateful to these retired members for the devotion of their precious time and effort to a highly regarded public service. Their contribution to the work of the Consumer Council has been most useful in promoting consumer interests," the spokesman said.
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Provisional statistics of retail sales for October
According to the provisional figures released today (Thursday) by the Census and Statistics Department, the value of total retail sales in October 1995, estimated at $17.7 billion, increased by 3% when compared with October 1994. After discounting the effect of price changes over the period, total retail sales dropped by 2% in volume.
Sales of motor vehicles continued to decline significantly, by 35% in value and 38% in volume. Sales of fuels and consumer durable goods (other than motor vehicles) also went down, by 3% and 2% in value respectively. In terms of volume, they decreased by 9% and 6% respectively.
Meanwhile, sales in supermarkets and department stores rose by 6% and 2% in value but went down by 2% and 7% in volume respectively. Concurrently, sales of food, alcoholic drinks and tobacco recorded virtually no change in value but a decrease of 7% in volume.
Nevertheless, there were still increases in sales of clothing and footwear (13% in value and 3% in volume); jewellery, watches and clocks and valuable gifts (12% in value and 11% in volume) and miscellaneous consumer goods (10% in value and 5% in volume).