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The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced today (November 15) that a public auction for stalls at the 2014 Fong Ma Po Lunar New Year Fair at Lam Tsuen, Tai Po will be held on November 29.
The 15-day fair will be held from January 31 to February 14, 2014, from 8am to 6pm daily. The upset bidding prices for the 22 dry goods stalls and six wet goods stalls are $1,090 and $1,080 respectively.
The auction will begin at 9.30am at Tai Po Community Centre. Dry goods stalls will be auctioned first, followed by wet goods stalls.
Bidders must be at least 18 years old and ordinarily resident in Hong Kong.
Anyone can bid for more than one stall. After successfully bidding for a stall, the bidder must immediately pay the bid price and register in his or her own name as the licensee of the stall. The bidder is also required to sign at once an express warranty and a licence agreement with the FEHD, or will forfeit the rights to operate the stall.
For the conservation of the Wish-Making Trees, stall operators will not be allowed to sell placards tied with any heavy object (including fruit). The licence agreements of those who fail to comply with the requirement will be terminated.
The fair site will be made available three days in advance for the setting up of stalls from January 28 to 30, 2014. However, no business shall be conducted on these three days.
Stall licensees should not mutilate, destroy, damage or abandon any unsold commodities at or in the vicinity of their stalls. They shall completely remove the stall structure and all paraphernalia, together with all refuse, debris and unsold commodities (whether damaged or otherwise), from the licenced area before 6pm on February 14, 2014. They may surrender those unsold flowers and plants to the department at no charge, cost or compensation, before the said time.
For more information about the auction, please call FEHD Tai Po District Environmental Hygiene Office at 3183 9162 or 2657 1137.
Details of the open auction are also available on the FEHD website: www.fehd.gov.hk.
Ends/Friday, November 15, 2013
Issued at HKT 15:07
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