AUCTIONEERS’ FEES.

Evening Star, Issue 3076, 28 December 1872, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS’ FEES.

To the Editor. Sir, —1 write uponthe principle that every public measure is understood to be for the public good ; therefore do I say that a fee of i sf/ to be paid to the Government, before I can sell my property by. is adverse to the public weal, and compels me to give it to an auctioneer to his profit and to my loss of, it may be, LSO. As for selling, I maintain that I could sell my own property better than any other man, therefore, why virtually compel me to give it to another to gell by a law made in the dark ages. Tam only one man j but are there not hundreds who would willingly pay iy fee of L 5 to be enabled to sell their property themselves? Grocers, clothiers, and others in almost every trade, would jump at the boon and pay their L 5 to be enabled to “ sell off” from time to time ; and instead of one or two L 0 fees being paid, several hundred L.> would be paid the Treasury bettered rather than injured, and the community better served and enriched too. What nays Mr hj ish—l am, &e,, PIiOGHESS.