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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1980

SPECIAL CAR NOS FETCH OVER $446 000

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THIRTY-FOUR SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $446 200 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 CH 1 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $88 000.

ANOTHER NUMBER CH 88 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $40 000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1 000 FOR CE 9995, CE 3900, CE 9616, AY 1132, CE 3280, CF 632, CE 4200, CF 1081, CF 2238,

635 AND CF 283.

THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES 1

HK 6328

$7.000

CC 300

$11 500

CH 8888

$36.000

CF 911

$1 200

CC 898

$25 000

CG 55

$36 000

CE 3218

$2 600

AK 316

$1 700

CH 3388

$26 000

AS 15

$10 000

CG 2

$32 000

BM 323

$16.000

CF 3399

$16 000

CH 3

$31 000

CF 1789

$1 900

CC 222

$30 000

CD 6060

$7 000

CF 987

$1 800

XX 564

$3 500

CF 933

$3 000

CF 148

$8 000

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 56TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY REALISED TO $13 953 532.

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