A SERIOUS QUESTION.
TIME-LIMIT AT' AUCTION SALES. >• Something"'foreign to this 'district (writes • the fornvof a time-limit Was; instituted by : the ' auctioneers at the last Eketahuna .stock: sales. , The new . system and the manner in which ;it was carried- out were adversely criticised oil all sides.". The question was oven brought up . at the annual meeting of the Farmers'/Union, and unless the recommendations' . then made -aro-'adhered.to' by th'o finn.s-operating, there ' • a ppeare •, a likelihood ; of co-operative yards . boing erected. Tho carrying out of the sysj -.tern, remarked a'speaker at 'the Union rnect- : ing, was 'a farce. , Everybody.-held l watches, ; and everybody callod ' "Tinle!" with a' result . . that.' stock' was,' sacrificed.' before -the actual timo—lj minutes—had expired. ,It was ro- ' commendcd; that if tho firms intended to con- ! tinuo the time-limit system, they be asked.to j extendHt to two minutes, from when the first . bid is taken, and to appoint' a recognised ' timekeeper. : , '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 8
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151A SERIOUS QUESTION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 8
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