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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 283, 27 August 1935, Page 6

An unwanted aspidistra, was the cause of some amusement in an Auckland auction roof last week, but in the end it was responsible for the sum of 16/6 being raised for the Community Sunshine Association. The plant had been thrown in as extra value when a palm stand was being sold, but when the purchaser declared that he did not want it the auctioneer, Mr. L. J. Coakley, offered to sell it, the buyer to nominate the charity to which the money should be paid. The first buyer, on getting the plant for 2/6, instructed the auctioneer to put it up again. This was done several times until the total stood at 16/6, and the last purchaser expressed a desire that the money should go to the Community Sunshine Association. He, too, refused to become the owner of an aspidistra and solved bis own problem by directing the auctioneer to give it to the first purchaser, the buyer of Hie palm stand.