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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994

A SELECTION BOARD TRANSPORT ADVISORY

MEMBER OF THE

TRANSPORT

COMPRISING A NON-OFFICIAL

THE COMMITTEE AND OFFICIALS FROM OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WILL SELECT THE APPLICANTS ON THE OF THE ESTABLISHED CRITERIA LAID DOWN BY THE BOARD.

THE

SERVICE, HIS VEHICLES,

AND BASIS

TRANSPORT

OVER AS

THE

THE OF

CRITERIA INCLUDE EXPERIENCE OF THE APPLICANT IN

FINANCIAL

MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, HIS

RIGHT MAINTENANCE

AS WELL RECORD OF THE VEHICLES THE QUALITY OF HIS VEHICLES TO BE DEPLOYED INCLUDING THE AVAILABILITY AIR-CONDITIONING.

"IF

MORE PERSONS THE APPLICANT IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ONE OR FOR THE PURPOSE

IT IS OF OPERATING THE GREEN

SERVICES, MINIBUS

THE COMPANIES STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT A COMPANY BE FORMED UNDER ORDINANCE AND THE APPLICATION BE MADE IN THE NAME OF THE COMPANY.

"HOWEVER, SUBMITTED AN

H

THE NOMINATED DIRECTOR OF ANY

SHALL NOT SUBMIT APPLICATION AN INDIVIDUAL PERSON, HE ADDED.

WHICH COMPANY ANOTHER APPLICATION

HAS AS

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PROVISIONAL FIGURES ON EXTERNAL TRADE FOR JULY 1994

BOTH RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN JULY 1994 COMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR. DOMESTIC EXPORTS, HOWEVER, FELL.

THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES ON EXTERNAL TRADE FOR JULY RELEASED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS

DEPARTMENT.

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THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, AT $84.0 BILLION IN JULY 1994, WAS $7.5 BILLION OR 9.9% HIGHER THAN THAT OF A YEAR AGO. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS DECREASED BY $931 MILLION OR 4.4% OVER THAT OF A YEAR EARLIER TO $20.4 BILLION IN JULY.

TAKING RE-EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS TOGETHER, THE VALUE EXPORTS INCREASED BY $6.6 BILLION OR 6.8% TO $104.5 BILLION

TOTAL JULY 1994.

OF IN

MEANWHILE, THE VALUE OF IMPORTS INCREASED BY $10.6 BILLION OR 11% TO $109.3 BILLION.

AS THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS IN JULY 1994 WAS SMALLER THAN THAT OF TOTAL IMPORTS, A VISIBLE TRADE DEFICIT OF $4.8 BILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 4.4% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, WAS RECORDED. THIS COMPARED WITH A DEFICIT OF $818 MILLION, EQUIVALENT TO 0.8% OF THE VALUE OF IMPORTS, IN JULY 1993.

IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1994, THE VALUE OF TOTAL EXPORTS GREW BY 9.5% OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

AMONGST THIS. THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 13%, WHILE THAT DOMESTIC EXPORTS FELL BY 4.3%. THE VALUE OF IMPORTS SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 13%.

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