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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1928, Page 6

Multitudinous and varied are the articles that fall into the hands of the police in the course of 12 months. On ihursday afternoon (says the Dunerin Times} a year’s collection was sold in the presence of a laifce number of the jjubiic. So numerous were the goods that the sale occupied over three hours. Many of the articles, such as umbrellas and overcoats, had been left in different parts of the exhibition and were unclaimed. The umbrellas, ladies’ and gentlemen’s, as far as he could judge, were in good order. Borne of them brought os, others half-a-crown or a shilling. Bicycles found by police officers in different parts of Otago numbered eight. They realised from (is up to 355. Two gallons of whicky and 18 bottles of whisky, confiscated to the Grown as the result of a police raid in a country town, brought £l2. Another lot of whisky, from the same source fetched £lO. Several rifles sold for £1 each, but there was little competition for a Mauser rifle which was knocked down for Is, while a double-barrel muzzle-loader went for ss. A boy became the possessor of a rifle for 5s and paid for it on the 6pot. Everything on the lengthy list was disposed of.