The Chief Secretary of South Australia (Hon., J. G. Bise), presiding at a meeting of the Institutes' Association, .recalled,,.an incident of,.the early .days when Yorke Peninsula was an. unimportant place. ~ A local. Institute.;was in financial .'difficulties, and.it wa- announced that the. books would be sold' by "a wax. match "competition... As a result, a",large number of. peqple'a'ssemhled;' and the person who acted as auctioneer, probably without a license, struck a wax match as each book was offered, and when the. match went out. "'. knocked down the' article to the last bidder.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 85
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