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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

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35,000

BY 89

5,000

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62,000

* BY

888

67,000

AC

30

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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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