CARGO FROM THE WRECK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 6

CARGO FROM THE WRECK.

AUCTION SALE HELD. ' ~~ With a calm sea that was a striking contrast to the storm of last Friday as a background, an auction sale of cargo from the wreck of the coastal steamer Progress was held at Ohiro Bay, Wellington, on Wednesday. All salvaged cargo from the wreck, the remains of which could be seen on the rocks, had been collected into heaps, and was auctioned lot by lot by a Wellington firm. Some 200 people attended the sale. The majority appeared to be there for no reason other than sheer curiosity. .'There were, however, a number of near by farmers among the crowd, who had come for the purpose of picking up bargains in bags of flour, wheat, pollard and bran. It was a shifting sale, for the piles of good? were scattered over shingly beach and rocks Starting villi soim> sacks of fiour, the auctioneer disposed of them for 2s 6c! s sack. Some poiiard went for Is.6a a sack Wheal, bran and other sacks of flour went al vary ins; prices A large pile , el wood fetched a few shillings A zinclined chest was. knocked down for ss, and a small pile of wood and portion' of a stout mast at 6d. _ Nothing fetched anything like a high price. .