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The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced today (November 11) that the auction for stalls at the 2011 Che Kung Festival Fair would be held on November 25.
The annual fair will be held from January 31 to February 17, 2011 at Chui Tin Street Soccer Pitch in Sha Tin. The opening prices for the 44 dry goods stalls and the four wet goods stalls are $3,410 and $820 respectively.
The auction will begin at 2.30pm at Wo Che Community Hall, Wo Che Estate, Sha Tin. Dry goods stalls will be auctioned first to be followed by wet goods stalls.
Bidders must be at least 18 years old and ordinarily reside in Hong Kong. Children under six years of age will not be permitted into the auction venue.
Any person may bid for more than one stall. Successful bidders are required to pay the bid price of the stall immediately after the auction or will forfeit his right to the stall and the stall concerned will be put up for re-auction immediately.
Stall licensees must completely remove the stall structure and all paraphernalia, together with all refuse, debris and unsold commodities (whether damaged or otherwise), from the licensed area before 10pm on February 17, 2011.
Stall licensees should not mutilate, destroy, damage or abandon any unsold commodities at or in the vicinity of their stalls. They may surrender those unsold flowers and plants left behind at the stalls to the department at no charge, cost or compensation whatsoever, before 10pm on February 17, 2011.
For more information about the auction, please call the FEHD's Sha Tin District Environmental Hygiene Office at 2634 0134.
Details are also available at the FEHD website: www.fehd.gov.hk.
Ends/Thursday, November 11, 2010
Issued at HKT 14:45
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