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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1981

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SPECIAL CAR NOS. SALE BY AUCTION

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THIRTY-TWO SPECIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD BY AUCTION THIS MORNING (SATURDAY) FOR A TOTAL OF $650 000 WHICH WILL GO INTO THE GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY PURPOSES.

THE AUCTION HELD AT RECITAL HALL OF THE CITY HALL, 8TH FLOOR, SAW THE REGISTRATION NUMBER CP1 FETCH THE HIGHEST PRICE OF $180 000.

ANOTHER NUMBER BS8 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $100 000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1 000 FOR CM277, CM8223, CL8613 AND CM449.

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

CL8698

$3.000

HK 1955

$4 500

CM 329

$26 000

CM 320

$3 300

7650

$36 000

CL8828

$9 800

CM 308

$12 000

CM 211

$4 500

AF 1881

CM 5

$52 000

CM 238

$8 000

CM 968

CM 811 CM1288 CL8109

$4.000 $4 000 $1.500 $22 000 $3.000

CM 928 CL9928

$9 000

AX1283

$3 000

CM 333

$90 000

$4.000

CM 987

$3 200

CM 911

$21 100

CM1123

$4.000

CM 110

$3.000

CM 887

$5 100

CM 332

$18 000

CN 238

$12 000

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 67TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY REALISED SO FAR TO $20 743 732.

SENIOR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR RETIRES

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SENIOR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR 1, MR LESLIE FOO CHI-YAN IS RETIRING AFTER 20 YEARS' SERVICE WITH THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.

AT A CEREMONY LAST NIGHT, THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, MR P. JACOBS PRESENTED A SOUVENIR TO MR FOO ON BEHALF OF HIS COLLEAGUES.

MR FOO JOINED THE DEPARTMENT IN 1961 AS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

II AND WORKED IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR IN 1968 AND SENIOR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR IN 1976.