PALATIAL FLATS VACATED
BAILIFFS CAUSE EXODUS BEDS SOLD FOR HALF-,CROWN. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 9.40 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 22. Extraordinary scenes, recalling the flight of war refugees, were witnessed to°day during the exodus of the . tenants from a large fashionable residential house on the north side of the harbour owing to the bailiffs having taken charge. Vehicles were lined up and. carted away trunks, bags and a jumble of nondescript impedimenta. Portly ladies carried an assortment of boxes, phonographs, cushions, canaries in cages, expensive parrots and Pomeranians. Hilarious young men were weighed down with suitcases, golf clubs and other sporting paraphernalia. And at either side of the main entrance of the palatial building stood «lderly, quiet and inoffensive-looking - bailiffs, who were the immediate cause, though not the originating spring of all the bother. The majority of the departing tenante were happy and were glad, of the fine weather for moving day. The furnliure was sold extraordinarily cheap y at the bailiff’s sale afterwards. Double beds brought 2s 6d, wardrobes 3s, tables is, and sedan chairs went for 4s.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1930, Page 9
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