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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1979

+RICCI HALL IS INDEED WELL KNOWN AS A COMMUNITY WHOSE MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM OF VALUES INSPIRED BY CHRISTIAN IDEALS. FATHER MATTEO RICCI, AFTER WHOM IT WAS NAMED, WAS A TRULY REMARKABLE MAN BEING THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO LIVE AND WORK IN PEKING AFTER MARCO POLO, IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT HE SHOULD HAVE INTRODUCED IDEAS OF WESTERN ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND GEOGRAPHY TO CHINA WHILE AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS A SERIOUS STUDENT OF CHINESE ART, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND GOVERNMENT. WE IN HONG KONG HAVE MUCH TO LEARN FROM HIS EXAMPLE FOR HONG KONG IS A CROSSROAD WHERE EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURES MEET: EACH HAS SOMETHING TO LEARN FROM THE OTHER, EACH HAS SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE,

+A 50TH ANNIVERSARY IS AN EVENT WELL WORTH CELEBRATING: FOR RICCI - APPROPRIATELY THEY HAVE BEEN GOLDEN YEARS. OFFER TO RICCI HALL AND EVERYONE CONNECTED WITH IT, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT, MY WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS ON PAST ACHIEVEMENTS, COUPLED WITH THE CONFIDENT HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO FLOURISH IN EVERY WAY.+

SPECIAL CAR NUMBER AUCTION REALISES $508 400

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TWENTY-FOUR SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $508 400, WHICH WILL GO INTO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.

THE AUCTION, HELD IN THE LECTURE HALL OF THE CITY HALL SAW REGISTRATION NUMBER 8778 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $100 000.

NUMBER CA1 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $80 000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1 000 FOR BOTH CB1066 AND CB2895.

THE OTHER REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:

CC 3238 ($2 000)

CB 911 ($3 200)

CB

750 ($2 200)

CB

219 ($1 400)

BP

272 ($6 000)

CB

802 ($1 200)

CB 1338 ($2 800)

CB

38 ($22 000)

AN

1 ($76 000)

CB 450 ($4 400)

CB

8 ($74 000)

CA

89 ($10 000)

CB

88 ($54 000)

CB

132 ($3 800)

CB

399 ($4 400)

AP

888 ($44 000)

CB 728 ($5 200)

CB

120 ($3 400)

CB 601 ($5 000)

CA 9199 ($1 400)

THE NUMBERS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED ONLY TO VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS.

TODAY'S SALE, THE 49TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED FOR CHARITY SO FAR TO $11 021 500.

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