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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1979

SPECIAL CAR NUMBERS AUCTION REALISES $67,000

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TWENTY-FIVE SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $67,600 WHICH WILL GO INTO THE LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.

THE AUCTION, HELD IN THE LECTURE HALL OF CITY HALL SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER AV 323 FETCHING THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $6,200.

ANOTHER NUMBER, BW 2992, WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $5,500 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1,000.

THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:

BX280,$4,100

BX688, $4,500

BW3781, $1,000 BW6820, $1,000

BW7333, $1,200

BW6628, $3,000

BW7832, $1,000 BX1088, $2,200

BX150, $2,200 BX230, $2,300

BX108, BW8092, $1,000

$3,500

EX882, $3,300 HK3781, $1,500 BX823, $2,300

BX819, $1,500

BW75,

$3,900 BX6668, $3,500 BX3228, $2,500 XX595, $3,100 BW7667, $1,800 BS16, $4,500 BW6698, $1,000

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 42ND ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR TO ABOUT $9 MILLION.

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