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SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1979

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AUCTION OF SPECIAL NUMBERS REALISES $300,700

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TWENTY-FIVE SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $300,700 WHICH WILL 60 INTO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.

THE AUCTION, HELD IN THE LECTURE HALL OF THE CITY HALL, SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER BB 33 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $75,000.

ANOTHER NUMBER BT 1 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $35,000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1,000 FOR EACH OF FOUR REGISTRATION NUMBERS.

THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES

B2

AB

1028 ($21,000)

BZ 1618 ($ 2,500)

BZ 223 ($ 4,000)

AZ 9999 ($21,000)

BZ 1168 ($ 3,400)

328 ($28,000)

786 ($ 5,500)

BU 88

88 ($30,000) BZ

833 ($ 4,000)

9773 ($15,000)

BZ

808 ($9,000)

$ 4,000)

BZ 928 ($

BZ

928 ($ 5,000)

888 ($31,000)

BZ 2007 ($ 1,000)

BZ 1338 ($ 3,600)

BZ 1948 ($ 1,000)

BZ 268 ($ 4,200)

AB 709 ($ 2,000)

BZ 5699 ($1,000)

BZ 622 ($ 3,000)

BZ 1588 ($1,000)

BZ 6228 ($ 1,500) BZ 180 ($ 3,000)

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 46TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR TO NEARLY $10 MILLION.

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