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FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF THE AUCTION:

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1992

$

$

RU7387 CL317

5,000 EU1800

31,000

AL108

68,000

EU9888 20,000

6,000

AK1881

35,000

EW2626

31,000

AA6323

25,000

EV1116

1,000

EV973

8,000

BL722

12,000

CL2336

7,000

AS400

27,000

EU1628

43,000

AP1488

35,000

EW900

31,000

BU9054 WITHDRAWN

CL29

45,000

EU28

215,000

AC2021

11,000

AA6793

13,000

EV3833 23,000

CF810

24,000

EU551

5,000

EU4983

1,000

AT9991

14,000

EU8578

1,000

CC192

45,000

DT121

10,000

EU3388

80,000

EV666

60,000

BW9191

18,000

EU2988

14,000

AA226

65,000

BL2812

8,000

AC350

31,000

AW2711

7,000

EU6088

11,000

EV8018

7,000

EU8283

11,000

SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WILL BE REQUIRED ΤΟ PAY BY CHEQUE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BIDDING.

THE NUMBERS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED ONLY ΤΟ VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.

TODAY'S SALE, THE 172ND ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONRY FOR CHARITY. REALISED SO FAR TO $129,127,105.

THERE WAS NO BIDDER FOR EU9054 AND THIS NUMBER WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE ORIGINAL APPLICANT.

POLICE BOMB EXPERTS PREVENT DISASTER

THE RESOURCEFULNESS AND UPSPARING EFFORTS BY A TEAM OF POLICE BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERTS TO REMOVE AN ACTIVE BOMB FROM A DREDGER HAVE PREVENTED THE OUTBREAK OF A POSSIBLE DISASTER.

ACTING ON A REPORT, A TEAM OF EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) OFFICERS WERE TASKED TO DEAL WITH A BOMB WHICH WAS UNEARTHED FROM THE SEABED BY A DREDGER, HANG JUN 4003, OFF KAU YI CHAU ON NOVEMBER 27 LAST YEAR. SOME 50 CREW MEMBERS WERE ON BOARD THE VESSEL.

ON ARRIVAL, FORCE BOMB DISPOSAL OFFICER JOHN ASSISTANT, DOMINIC BRITTAIN, FOUND THAT THE DREDGER ITS PUMP A 22-INCH-LONG NAVAL SHELL WHICH WAS FUSED.

PARKER, AND HIS HAD SUCKED INTO

ATTEMPTED

USING A SLEDGE HAMMER AND AN IRON BAR, THE OFFICERS TO TURN OVER THE PUMP ENGINE. THEY FAILED BECAUSE THE SHELL WAS TIGHTLY JAMMED IN POSITION.

BLOCK AND

THE BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERTS THEN TRIED TO USE A HEAVY TACKLE TO. HAUL THE SHELL FREE. THE SHELL, HOWEVER, FAILED TO MOVE WITH SEVERAL HAWSERS PARTING.

/DESPITE TWO

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