SOLD AND RESOLD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 281, 25 November 1915, Page 4

SOLD AND RESOLD.

FOB THE PATRIOTIC FPIH)/ BALE OF WOOL REALISES ,£2«. A single bale of woo] realised £246 V at auction this morning for the. Patriotic. Fund. This was an interesting part of the proceedings connected with wool sales of the season in Auckland which took place in the concert' chainbti of the Town Hall before a large gearing of buyers, farmers, and the general public. The bale in question was sented by Mr. J. T. Edmonds, of Kirikiri and Hie value was estimated to be at least £20. It was included in the ordinary way in the catalogue of the'XeV Zealand Loan and Mercantile" A;«ncv Company. Ltd., and was thus purchaseil by one of the visiting buyers for export jpurposes.. The cheque handed 'to'JJr. Edmonds will be placed to the credit of the Patriotic Fund, and to it 'will ba' added the total of £248 5/ -which : realised from buyers who re : d6jia\tiH in turn. *, For this sp'eial sale the hammer >vai wielded by .Mr. Walter Hill, of Christ-} church, secretary of the Association. "I want to create a record," he announced. "Last year a bale of wool in Australia realieed £7000 for? the Patriotic Fund, and when consigned ito England it was re-sold for:a.total of 1 £1250." ■ .' - . j The bidding started at JEIO, and thei; .' 'in quick succession came bids of ■ £15 £20, £25, £30, £35, £40, £45, and£so. At the latter figure the bale waj ' knocked down to Mr. Perkins on* bchil! ■of the Auckland Woolbrokers , As'swijt..';.' ; tion. Someone in the public'gallery inquire! if the proceeds were to. go to any particular Queen, and was informed' titafc buyers could nominate their Queen. - Next the bidding went from £10!; £15, to £20, and .was sold to the Commerce Queen Committee. Each, time the auctioneer announced that the bale was to be again sold. " -. The bidding was free, thouglr-nofpar--ticularly spirited, and": in . turn .the bale -. jwas purchased by the following: Wopl- '. "brokers' Association, £50; Goinineice ■ Queen Committee, £20; J. Stephenson (Retailers' Queen) and Mr.. .Paußba )-j(Queen of the South), £11 .-each; Wjlson and Canham, Mr. .W. B. Gieeon . (Quee-H of the North), -ilr.-Ted' Biiuiey. . (Waitemata Queen), Mr. John Jeffries ; (Queen of the South), Mr. H. itl Xolu; Mr. T. Guy (Queen of the. North), lick--1 enstein and Arnoldson (Soldiers 5 Queen), '■■ Mr. O'Connor (Queen of the North),,and Mr. Neil (Queen of the South),. ,210 each; Clark and Mathesbn• (Wholesalers';. ; Queen), £5 5/; Mr. T. Guy (Queen ,of : i the North), Mr. B. Coleman (Queen of! 'the Xorth). Mr. W. Sell ollunv (Queen .of . 'the Xorth). Mrs. Clark (Soldiers' ; Queen), Messrs. A. W. Perkins,' F. Bodl«; F. Binney (Commerce Queen), Coburn; : (Queen of the South);-Walter Hill, P. T. ; Douglas (Soldiers' Queen), G. G. Smith (Queen of tile East),-and, Aueni(Quee/i of the Xorth) i £5 eacli; Messrs Christk, . Perm, Crane (Queen of the North)',.anil. j Williams, £2 each;. Mr. .A, .Donald I (Sports , Queen), £1; total-,£246 5/.'. i When' introducing the "auctioneer to !the gathering. Mr. A." W. Perkins intimated that while Mr. Edmonds ;Ji:d;? made a straight-out gift to the Patriotic Fund, many of the farmers --were girin? . Si-p.ercejitage.of their fund."""After the"gopH prtees" ,^ have, ,-rcectred this morning,' 1 lie continued, J "we can afford to give more." "(Api plause.)