MODERN SHEEP SALE.
BUYER GOES BY AIR.
A DRAMATIC OPENING. BID.
An incident- -resembling a cinema "stunt': took place at Wilkinson and Lavender's sheep sale at Hay, New South Wales recently, when 40,000 sheep wero offered, buyers coming from all parts' of Australia. One buyer •was due '.to" arrive by mail , aeropiano from Melbourne, which was late. Mr. Frank Lavender, the auctioneer, had ■tart'ed selling a lino of 4960 wethers, When tho 'plane hove in sight. Mr. Lavender told tho assemblage that a buyer for tho wethers, was on the 'plane.
As soon an the 'plane landed at the aerodrome, near the sale yards, the buyer ■was motored over. As he stepped out* of the car, tho auctioneer said: "I am offered 18s for 500 two-year-old wethers. Will you give' a pound for them?" Tho bum, who just saw the sheep, .replied "Yos," and the ...whole lino was knocked down to him. The buyer was Mr. Edward Carroll, ;of .Collcndina, Corowa, the constructor of the M.orundah dam, which cost approximately £1,000,000. Thirtythree thousand • Illillawa station shoep wero, sold, for £41,715 in less than an hour. During the sale aeroplanes arrived and l«\(t for Melbourne, and arrived and left for Adelaide.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 12
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