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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1994

CAR MARKS SOLD FOR CHARITY

FORTY VEHICLE REGISTRATION MARKS WERE SOLD IN AN AUCTION (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A TOTAL OF $29,780,000 WHICH WILL GO GOVERNMENT LOTTERIES FUND FOR CHARITY AFTER DEDUCTION OF EXPENSES.

THIS

ΤΟ THE

THE

CENTRE, $4 MILLION.

SAW

71

AUCTION, HELD AT THE LECTURE HALL OF THE SHEUNG WAN

THE REGISTRATION MARK

THE HIGHEST PRICE

CIVIC

FETCH

OF

ANOTHER

REGISTRATION

MARK 92 WAS SOLD AT THE

SECOND

HIGHEST

PRICE OF $2.7 MILLION WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE WAS $200,000 FOR 420.

FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF THE AUCTION:

1368

480,000

FS3333

340,000

92

XX10

320,000

71

4,000,000

230

420,000

HK17

650,000 79

2,700,000 HK7 1,400,000 1,200,000

AS3

336

400,000 1,500,000

HK500

400,000

HK22

750,000

148

600,000 FV1 560,000

420

200,000

187

380,000

933

FL1

520,000

XX99

550,000 109 550,000

500,000

XX11

600,000

AA10

400,000

74

320,000

110

400,000 812

450,000

116

680,000

FF2

650,000

DD8888 600,000 CP2

450,000

HK15

700,000

938

820,000

700

1380

360,000

600,000 181

HK222

1,600,000 950,000

127 AW88

400,000

BB2222 420,000

620,000 FA8

340,000

SUCCESSFUL

BIDDERS

WILL

TO REQUIRED BE

PAY

BY

CHEQUE

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BIDDING.

ONLY

THE VEHICLE REGISTRATION MARKS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED TO VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.

DEPARTMENT

TO

TODAY'S SALE, THE 213RD ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR $266,327,905.

SINCE

EXCHANGE FUND'S HKB ACCOUNT BALANCE REDUCED

THE REDUCTION EXCHANGE

IN VIEW OF THE PREVAILING LOCAL MONEY MARKET CONDITIONS, HONG KONG MONETARY AUTHORITY TODAY (SATURDAY) ANNOUNCED THE OF THE BALANCE OF HONGKONGBANK'S ACCOUNT MAINTAINED WITH THE FUND BY $1 BILLION TO $3 BILLION.

THIS REVERSED AN EARLIER INJECTION OF DECEMBER 7 LAST YEAR.

$1

BILLION

MADE ON

/A SPOKESMAN