Two Auctioneers Who Please

NZ Truth, Issue 1104, 27 January 1927, Page 13

Two Auctioneers Who Please

pOR the bloodstock sale- at Trentham last week, there came two auctioneers from Sydney. ;V The two were Reg. Inglis and Ken. Austin, who occupy the , rostrum during the big sales over the Tasman atEaster time. Both men pleased the audience at Trentham, but '-.how dissimilar they are iri* methods. Inglis y, was first, to make his bow, and : with a voice that could be heard at Silverstream, he. ; extolled the good points of

II the horse m front of him. „ if fl ! Then, came' Austin, and for a few moments he could not be foi- || li lowed. , / 11 II He- was just th'e opposite to his predecessor, for his voice was Ji |l quiet, bu.t before long he was easier to follow than the more boisterous || li Inglis. . '■' i ■■.■'•'■ yy p. 1= The dissimilarity- in their methods, however, was forgotten, by §§ H most when it came fo selling horses. fill They knew their jobs, and knew horses and their- pedigrees, and || |1", were not frightened to enlighten the crowd. §§ fi How different from what has been, witnessed m the past. Some l| ll auctioneers "N.Z. Truth" has listened to were all right selling ploughs, || 11 , 'but ■horse's — never. ■ =1 - =