UNCLAIMED CARGO.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1916, Page 2

UNCLAIMED CARGO.

SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE. A "WAG" MAKES FUN. A- wag established himself on the top of a stack of 'bagged chaff in the Auckland Harbour Board abed, No. 15, this afternoon, when a quantity of unclaimed cargo was offered \fbr sale thy auction without reserve. A large number of people-had. been a-ttfactM by the sale, and were-evidently bent,op securing baf■gainsc Theinitial'ibids absurdly ioW, and eventually it-was'evi-dent:-that -the purchasers-were nearly all well known business men arid a few dealers.- • --•■' ' .....■•

;-A ' mystdribus-lbpkirig "portmanteau, diis'ty arid/very hfeivy, was offered together with 2 cases of malt extract.- Tfie wag bffdfed 1/. Ine auctioneer igribfed the ..bid. , "Three Iron," ventured the wag in hurt, tones. "Say ten," said the auctioneer; ''Don!t make it too hot, Charlie," ; pleaded the/ wag; "I nihet bid 'within.-/my .ineiths."A very well ..-known- business .mail., of venerable appearance sat on * pocking case swinging his. legsj arid incidentally buying a fairly large proportion of the lots Offered. He, wiis the subject of a gfeatydeal bf good-natured, though father pointed, remarks on the' part ot the "ftag; For three caseo of gl-uis, ■« marble sfaib, a ventilator, arid ii sewing machine of a popular 'br.airdj the wag offered 'Three -half-crowns." ..The lot Was eventually knocked down for-. £3. Half, a dozen galvS.riitfed pipe'if brought a. bid, ff om the same quarter of:"A bob.'" The buirinesrman OR' the toox pnrcuased them.at £3: The wag remarked,- to tbe delight of 'everjibodj', that; f "JrU." "was bidding against him. "Dott't be too Hard on a working marij-'J.J.'" he said, "i'vb got tb bkl d.'iSse' of il»'MfbQnafe.';bi abda,-'and a case/ Mem Boid for £2.,] L/.; a ibtLridle of, 12 .dbof^inalfe,/bfbjight. 3s/; 'two drums of oil,. a ,'bagJ,of, ibyQltSi api | some hafdw'ookl were taodked down for £-2 2/6; 'wliilc' a casia of iriatchesj-a box bf ebcK&i'.aSd a* crate of pipes f6fccti<Sd £o-£/-ai- -•:-_. ..:■■ ■ -y. ■■: ; ..- ;: ,;^.^^ J y'