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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1988

OF GOODS VALUED AND 42 AWAITING

TURNING TO EFFORTS AGAINST COMPUTER PIRACY, HE SAID OPERATIONS OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HAD RESULTED IN THE SEIZURE 161 TRADERS PROSECUTED AT OVER $18 MILLION, WITH PROSECUTION.

"WE HAVE ALSO

VIGOROUS TAKEN

ACTIONS ON ENFORCEMENT

AND COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE COUNTERFEIT WATCHES UNDER BOTH TDO AND THE

CASES HAVE SEIZED $70.4 MILLION WORTH OF COUNTERFEIT WATCHES IN 1,015 SINCE 1984.'

OF PECULIARITIES

INDUSTRIAL SAID THAT STRONG SUPPORT INDUSTRIAL/INTELLECTUAL

NOTING THE INDIVIDUAL

LI INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, MR

THE OWNERS OF

FROM

CO-OPERATION RIGHTS AND FURTHER POSITIVE SUPPORT FROM THE PUBLIC

THE INFRINGEMENTS OF NEEDED TO CONTAIN TRADING STANDARDS AS A WHOLE.

AND

AND PROPERTY IN GENERAL WERE INDUSTRY AND

LEGITIMATE

CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR SEPTEMBER 1988

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR SEPTEMBER 1988.

PUBLISHED

THE CPI(A) AND CPI(B) (OCT. 84/SEP. 85

120.0 RESPECTIVELY,

100) FOR = REPRESENTING

SEPTEMBER

OF

INCREASES

1988 WERE 120.5 AND 8.8 FER CENT AND 8.3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY OVER SEPTEMBER 1987.

IN

THOSE SEEN RATE OF INFLATION

THESE RATES OF INCREASE, WHICH ARE HIGHER THAN EARLIER MONTHS, ARE A FURTHER INDICATION THAT THE IS CONTINUING TO RISE.

IT

INCREASED BY

SHOULD LIKELY

BE ΤΟ

AND,

TREND

ARR

COMPARING SEPTEMBER WITH AUGUST 1988, THE CPI(A)

HOWEVER, 1.3 PER CENT AND THE CPI(B) BY 1.1 PER CENT. NOTED THAT THESE COMPARISONS WITH THE PRECEDING MONTH HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SEASONAL AND OTHER TEMPORARY FLUCTUATIONS,

AS THE ANNUAL READILY GENERALISED THEREFORE, SHOULD NOT BE INFLATION RATE.

THE AVERAGE CPI(A) AND AVERAGE CPI(B) FOR THE 12

AND 115.4 RESPECTIVELY, WERE SEPTEMBER 1988, AT 115.3

THAN THE AVERAGE AND 7.0 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 1987.

MONTHS ENDED 7. 2 PER CENT 12 FOR THE

DURING THE 3-MONTH PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 1988, THE

RATE OF 0.9

SEASONALLY

PER CENT PER

ADJUSTED CPI(A) INCREASED AT AN AVERAGE MONTH AND THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED CPI(B), AT 0.8 PER CENT PER MONTH.

/THE CPI(A)