Attendance, sales down at auction

Press, 6 December 1979, Page 6

Attendance, sales down at auction

Almost 100 fewer people than usual turned up at the Farmers’ woolstore in Moorhouse Avenue yesterday for the biannual police auction of everything from peanuts to tennis racket frames. The 150 people who die attend made spirited bids foi ; the 216 lots offered, which: went for a total of 53300. | This was $4OO down on the I previous auction, but Mr J. Gibbens, the police stores officer, said that the quality of the items offered was in fenor to past sales. Only 40 hardened bidder; remained by 2.45 pun.,_ competing for such diverse items as a hub cap; a brown, green, and yellov. striped scarf, and a pair of gloves, which brought $2.50' two torches and a smal transistor radio ($16); twe blankets ($16); 15 small tins of instant coffee ($11); six English china cups and saucers ($51); five pairs of size 12 blue jeans ($18); a rustyformerly red, motor-cycle frame which appeared to have spent a long time in ; the Avon River (50c); and three tatty sheep skins and i an old pick-axe (50c). ■