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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1985
100TH CAR NUMBERS AUCTION FETCHES $1 M
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LUCKY CAR REGISTRATION NUMBER HK3 WAS SOLD THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING BY AUCTION FOR $420 000 WHICH WILL GO TO THE LOTTERIES FUND AND BE USED FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
THE REGISTRATION NUMBER ALSO FETCHED THE HIGHEST BID AT TODAY'S AUCTION, BOOSTING THE TOTAL PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF ALL 35 LUCKY NUMBERS TO $1 005 000.
TODAY'S AUCTION, HELD AT THE CITY HALL RECITAL HALL, IS THE 100TH ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973.
TO MARK THE SPECIAL OCCASION, THE DEPARTMENT INVITED MISS ASIA PACIFIC (HONG KONG), MISS EVA LAI, TO BE THE HONORARY AUCTIONEER FOR THE SPECIAL NUMBER HK3.
THE BIDDING FOR THE AUSPICIOUS NUMBER, WHICH IN CANTONESE MEANS + HONG KONG ALIVE+ WAS BRISK RIGHT FROM THE FIRST CALL OF $30 000, MISS LAI FINALLY BROUGHT THE HAMMER DOWN AT $420 000.
SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, MR IAN MACPHERSON, AND THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT. MR PETER LEEDS WERE ALSO AT THE AUCTION. AFTER THE AUCTION OF THE SPECIAL NUMBER, MR MACPHERSON PRESENTED MISS LAI WITH A SOUVENIR IN APPRECIATION OF HER PARTICIPATION IN THE CHARITABLE CAUSE.
ANOTHER NUMBER DD33 WAS SOLD AT THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE OF $100 000 WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $1 000 FOR DG 1885 AND DF9526.
THE OTHER SPECIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS WERE SOLD AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:
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DG 248
3 000
DF 3393
3 500
DG1323
8328
4 000
36 000
DG 328
12 000
BB7228
10 000
DH 1
95 000
DB 603
DG 228
5 000
DG 368
2 500
10 000
CK3388 41 000
DG 668 17 000
DF8378
4 000
CN3388
40 000
DG8938
3 500
DF 7888
4 500
DG1088
4 000
8138
20 000
BG 180
10 000
DG2823
6 800
DG 108
6 000
BU
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31 000
AC3386
10 500
DG 751
1 200
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