SALVAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 879, 27 July 1910, Page 5

SALVAGE.

■■ SOUSED IN THE INDRADEVI. Quite a gathering of prospective buyers and those having au idle hour assembled in the big shed, on the Tarahaki' Street Wharf. yesterday morning,. when. » sale of niore or' less damaged goods,from the Tyser'liner lndradevi was held by Messrs. Geo. Thomas and .Co., en- behalf, of the underwriters. "You Nev*r Can 'Tell," wrote Geo.- Bernard, Shaw, although, it was a' common enough phrase bel'oro he took it' up, and- really 'tho expression is peculiarly applicable to a at auction. It is almost ..common, knowledge that at times really first-class merchandise' is thrown away, .whilst. at others poor' and' indifferent, wares realise culously high prices. 'At yesterday's 6ale of" salvaged ': goods,' , satistactory" prices were : obtained all round. A- .big stack, of. corrugated iron, little affected by its housing, realised from JZL'i lo X'li ;Is. per ton; an inferior lot from ,£ll/,t0.,£12. Sheet brought Bs. per cwt.; -white (discoloured) waste, from. £3 to ,£5 per bale; and wire netting, 7s. 3d. per roll. Some, quaint American stoves, of a pattern somewhat new to Wellington brought 255. ■ to 425. A great tankful .of.' candle-wicks (on • reels), 9351b. in all,, were bought lit 6Jd.' per lb.,.and some-bales of white ■paper (sheet), which was quite sodden, eold for 475. per bale...An iron enaniel bath (small size),. with a. mighty crack in it, realised £il 195., almost the price of a new one of the class. A case of choice English confectionery ,in a disreputably mastic condition, was ordered to be sent to the destructor, as.unfit for human consumption. In all, the goods >2ered realised between,,£6oo and .£7OO.