POLICE AUCTION OF BICYCLES
PRICES RANGE BETWEEN 2/- AND £lO/10/-
“One rusty old bike,” which sold for 2s, realised the lowest price at an auction sale in Christhcurch on Thursday of bicycles and unclaimed goods held by the police. About 35 bicycles were offered and the best bought £lO 10s. Nearly all the bicycles had been abandoned, and needed repairs, said the auctioneer. Many could be ridden away; qthers could not, and were wheeled or carried away. Of more interest to the fairly large crowd of bargain-hunters which attended the sale wqs a leather satchel offered, unopened, with its contents. It sold for £4. A few wrist watches offered fetched between £3 and £5 10s; and, bargain of the day, a tweed overcoat in excellent repair was knocked down for Is. »
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27303, 20 March 1954, Page 5
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