Gold Watch For $4
A woman bid and bought a suitcase ’of clothes with a gold watch in it for $4 at an auction of unclaimed luggage in Christchurch yesterday. The auctioneer, Mr J. L. T. Dyer, briefly looked at the items in the suitcase, one of many auctioned, and offered it for sale. Just after it was sold one of the attendants saw the watch as he was closing the case. More than 400 lots of unclaimed and left luggage from railway stations in Canterbury, the West Coast and Marlborough, were sold for about $lOOO ait the auction.
The auction, which lasted three hours, attracted more than 120 people and bidding was brisk for a wide variety of articles. A new Japanese sewing machine sold for $l3; an almost new cricket bat and a pair of cricket pads sold for $2. The goods were auctioned on behalf of the Railways Department by George Anderson and Son, Ltd. A spokesman for the department said the left luggage had been unclaimed for three months and the checked goods and booked goods had been unclaimed for six months. Every effort had been made by the department to find the owners.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 12
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