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SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1979
AUCTION OF SPECIAL NUMBERS REALISES $619,700
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TWENTY-TWO SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR $619,700 WHICH WILL GO INTO THE LOTTERIES FUND.
THE AUCTION, HELD IN THE LECTURE HALL OF THE CITY HALL SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER 100 FETCHING THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $120,000,
ANOTHER NUMBER, BY 888, WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $67,000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1,500 FOR BP 595.
THE SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES
* 100
$120,000
AV
999
$35,000
238
60,000
AA 363
38,000
BJ
33
45,000
* BP
595
1,500
AA 38
AA 8888
|
35,000
BY 89
5,000
|
62,000
* BY
888
67,000
AC
30
{
20,000
BY
222
31,000
AK 11
18,000
HK
510
5,000
AL 1188
6,600
BY
138
6,000
BY 283
3,500
BY
603
1,600
BY 729
2,000
BY
823
4,000
BV 323
14,000
HK
878
40,000
THE NUMBERS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED ONLY TO VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.
TODAY'S SALE, THE 43RD ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR TO MORE THAN $9.5 MILLION.
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