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The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced today (December 23) that stalls for the 2006 Tai Po Lam Tsuen Fong Ma Po Fair would be put up for public auction on January 6, 2006.
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To cope with the arrangements for protecting the Wish Making Trees, the FEHD will hold a fair on a trial basis from January 29 to February 12, 2006, from 8am to 6pm daily, at Tai Po Lam Tsuen Fong Ma Po.
The arrangements among departments concerned were co-ordinated by the Tai Po District Office of the Home Affairs Department and supported by local people.
The opening prices for each of the 32 dry goods stalls and six wet goods stalls are $540 and $760 respectively.
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00The auction will begin at 9.30am on January 6 at Tai Yuen Community Hall, Tai Yuen Estate, Tai Po. Dry goods stalls will be auctioned first, followed by wet goods stalls.
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00Bidders must be at least 18 years old and children under six years of age will not be allowed to enter the auction venue.
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00Anyone can bid for more than one stall. A successful bidder is required to pay the bid price of the stall at the fall of the hammer. Bidders who use dishonoured cheques or fail to pay the sum required immediately after the auction will be sued and recovery action on the bid prices in arrears may also be taken.
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00Successful bidders who fail to pay the sum required immediately after the auction will forfeit their right and the stalls concerned will be put up for re-auction immediately.
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00For the protection of the Wish Making Trees, stall operators will be prohibited from selling placards tied with any heavy object (including fruit), otherwise, the licence agreements concerned will be terminated.
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00The fair site will be made available three days in advance for the setting up of stalls from January 26 to 28, however, no business shall be conducted on these three days.
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00Licensees must completely remove the stall structure and all paraphernalia, together with all refuse, debris and unsold commodities (whether damaged or otherwise), from the Licence Area before 6 pm on February 12. Licensees should not mutilate, destroy, damage or abandon any unsold commodities at and in the vicinity of their stalls.
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00Interested bidders wishing to seek more information may call the FEHD's Tai Po District Environmental Hygiene Office at 3183 9109.
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00Details are also available at the FEHD website, www.fehd.gov.hk.
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Ends/Friday, December 23, 2005
Issued at HKT 18:20
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