AMUSEMENT PARK SALE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26394, 12 April 1951, Page 8

AMUSEMENT PARK SALE

SPOONS TO BUILDINGS

CARGO FROM IVOR JENNY .. . . ALSO SOLD

A hundred and one types of goods ranging from knives, forks, spoons, cups and saucers, to whole buildings were sold at an auction sale in the Centennial Amusement Park in Hagley Park yesterday. Selling went on for five hours, and was followed at some stages by hundreds of people. The sale finished too late for the auctioneer to calculate the total proceeds yesterday, but it was reported last evening that cash transactions alone had produced £B5O. The sale was considered to be very satisfactory.

The sale opened in the "mirror maze” building, where items such as building paper, piping, wooden frames, galvanised clips, sheets of wallboard, panels of glass, and electric-light bulbs were arranged round the walls. The set of distortion mirrors, which were a feature of the park, sold at £135 for the complete set. Full-length mirrors brought up to £6 each. When all the contents of the building had been sold, the corrugated aluminium building itself, measuring 42ft by 30ft, was sold for £2OO.

Thousands of feet of timber, heaps of assorted timber, and poles and posts were sold outside the building formerly occupied by the Chinese acrobats. Lengths of plywood and corrugated aluminium, rolls of chick netting, and electrical equipment were then sold in the building. A small wooden shed, which has been used to accommodate a transformer, was sold at £l7 10s. The “log cabin,” measuring 20ft by Bft, was passed in at £llO.

Among the more important sales were: an amplifier unit at £29 10s, electric motors at up to £l4, a chesterfield suite at £ll, a three-piece suite at £34, a tape recorder and microChone at £55, a safe at £43, a water eater at £l7 10s, and a washing machine at £5l. An electric range was passed in at £34, and a refrigerator at £BO, prices said to be slightly under the reserves. Corrugated aluminium brought about 35s for Bft sheets, and chick netting from £2 15s to £3 a roll.

Goods From Ivor Jenny In the Jellicoe Hall hundreds of people followed a sale of damaged goods from the Ivor Jenny, which caught fire in December between Panama and Suva, and then ran aground on a reef about 100 miles from Suva.

The offering in the Jellicoe Hall, which was on account of several importers, included 1150 yards of carpet, which was sold at prjces not exceeding those fixed by the Price Tribunal. Where a lot reached the maximum price allowed by the tribunal a ballot was .held among those who were prepared to take it at that price. On about 12 occasions yesterday it was necessary to hold such a ballot. Ordinary 27-inch body carpet brought to 42s a yard, and a small lot of wider carpet brought 55s a yard. Five thousand five hundred yards of pillow cotton brought up to Is lid a yard, furnishing moquette to 15s a yard, men’s coating to 14s, men’s shirting 2s to 2s 6d, high quality furnishing material to 8s a yard, sports seat sticks to 35s each, ana 'alarm clocks 15s apiece. Two badly-damaged pianos, which are valued about £225 new, were sold for £67 IDs and £9l.

The total takings for this sale were about £3OOO.