SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1980
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SPECIAL CAR NOS. SALE BY AUCTION
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THIRTY-FOUR SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR $921 200 WHICH WILL GO INTO THE LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.
THE AUCTION AT CITY HALL SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER CH 8 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $200 000.
ANOTHER NUMBER CC 666 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $142 000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1 000 FOR AY 8773, CF 9960, CF 6168, CF 6138, CF 3001.
THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:
CF 320
AS8838
3 200 12 000
CG 38
9 000
CC 707
$ 14 000
CG1668
20 000
CG 1
73 000
AN1132
2 000
CF8328
6 000
CG8888
100 000
CE9088
3 000
HK 323
80 000
CF8168
3 000
CF 670 5 000
CF 83
12 000
CF3111
4 000
CG 448 6 000
8092
42 000
CF2899
CG 688 14 000
CF3268
4 000
CH
47
4 000 WITHDRAWN
CF 1838
3 000
CF8833
19 000
CH 10
57 000
CF 345 11 000
CF 120 AA6446
5 000
6 000
4949
40 000
THE NUMBER 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 57TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL MONEY FOR CHARITY SO FAR TO MORE THAN $10 MILLION.
TENDERS FOR DOUBLE TRACKING INVITED
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THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS INVITING TENDERS FOR THE DOUBLE TRACKING OF ANOTHER SECTION OF THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY BETWEEN TA! PO MARKET AND SHEUNG SHUI STATIONS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THE PROJECT WAS AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE KCR MODERNISATION AND ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAMME.
IT CONSISTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WIDENED EMBANKMENT AND A SECOND TRACK OF ABOUT SEVEN KILOMETRES, AND THE WIDENING OF THREE EXISTING BRIDGES.
/ON COMPLETION