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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1991
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT EXCHANGE FUND
MONEY MARKET OPERATIONS
DATE
$ MILLION
CLOSING BALANCE IN THE ACCOUNT ON
17.5.91
480
EFFECT OF FORWARDS TO BE SETTLED ON
EFFECT OF OPERATIONS THIS MORNING
18.5.91
NEUTRAL
NEUTRAL
SPECIAL CAR NUMBERS SOLD BY AUCTION
FORTY SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE PUT UP FOR AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $958,000 WHICH WILL GO TO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.
THE AUCTION, HELD AT THE RECITAL HALL OF THE CITY HALL, SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER EC1 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $290,000.
THE
ANOTHER NUMBER DM5 WAS SOLD AT $80,000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1,000 DS3039, ER6623 AND ER6877.
SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF EACH FOR CG557, EP3337,
FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF TODAY'S AUCTION:
CG557
1,000 AC213
25,000
ER3 1'5
3,000
BB44
BB3538 5,000 ER2328 WITHDRAW WITHDRAW XX63 65,000 BB421
11,000
EP3337
1,000
ER738
9,000
AA9911
42,000
BY9904
WITHDRAW
DS3039
1,000
1038
75,000
BR618 30,000 BJ3623 DD62 40,000
XX510
22,000
7.000
EC1
290,000
AC698 19,000
CE568
6,000
AK731
11,000
ER6877
1,000
ER8384
WITHDRAW
ER6623
1,000
EP1028
10,000
AJ786
34,000
AB863
34,000
AL3223
16,000
DM5
80,000
ER343
4,000
ER707
5,500
ES8168
5,500
ER827
7,000
BM350 9,000
ES628
34,000
BZ950
7,000
EL 189
12,000
ES113
25,000
ER7 13
6,000.
THERE ARE NO BIDDERS
FOR BB44, BY 9904, ER2328 AND ER8384. BY9904, ER2328 AND ER8384 WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE ORIGINAL WHILE BB44 WILL BE PUT UP FOR SALE IN THE LATER AUCTION.
APPLICANTS
SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WERE REQUIRED TO PAY BY CHEQUE AFTER THE BIDDING.
IMMEDIATELY
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 164TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY REALISED SO FAR TO $117,856,605.
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