SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1977
AUCTION OF SPECIAL NUMBERS REALISES $202,500
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AT AN AUCTION AT THE CITY HALL THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING, 16 SPECIAL CAR REGISTRATION NUMBERS FETCHED A TOTAL OF $202,500 WHICH WILL GO INTO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY.
THE AUCTION, HELD AT THE CITY HALL LECTURE ROOM, SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER HK 80 GO FOR THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $30,000.
ANOTHER NUMBER, BK 18, WAS SOLD FOR THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $25,000, WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $2,500 FOR BN 505.
THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:
3228
$15,000
AH 686
$7,500
BM 99
$10,000
AC 717
$8,000
BM 9000
$4,000
AV 32
$11,000
BL 100
$5,000
BB 23
$21,000
BJ 22
$16,000
BJ 323
$8,000
BB 2222 $16,000
BN 525
$3,500
AG 8
$20,000
THE NUMBER AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED ONLY TO VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE AUCTION.
THIS MORNING'S SALE, THE 33RD ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR TO ABOUT $5,800,000.
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