AUCTION SALES

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

AUCTION SALES

Reports of Various City Firms. Messrs Hutchinson. White, Ltd., auctioneers, report having held successful sales of furniture and effects, the principal prices realised being as follows: Roll top desk £7 10s, tallboys £2, £2 15s. £3 17s Cd, carpet £5, pictures 27s 6d, duchesses £1 10s, £1 ss, £1 7s (id, Primus lamp 15s, floorcovering 15s, rirau cot £1 ss, mattresses 11s 6d, 10s. double oak bed and wire £1 15s, electric heaters 10s, ss, child’s cot 15s. runner £1 10s, £1 6s, stretchers 10s, 15s, table £l. chest drawers £l, tea waggon £2, pianos £25. £S 10s, wood bed and wire £1 17s 6d, Morris chair £l, pillows 13s, mattress 15s. 4 H.B. chairs £2, china cabinet £6 ss, wardrobes £2 ss. £3 ss. china cabinet £5 10s, kitchen sundries £1 19s Gd, fireside chairs £1 11s, £1 12s Gd, Axminster runner 12s 6d, colonial couch £1 16s. lino 16s, three-piece oak bedroom suite £9, colonial couch 19s, H.B. chairs £l, cutlery £1 10s, clock 10s, couch £l. hallstand £2, chesterfield £lO, chesterfield suite £7 10s, £6, kapoc mattress £2 7s 6d, bookcase 15s, carpet square £1 10s, ext. table and four chairs £4, Hoover £B. tea waggon 12s 6d, folding chair 10s, set oak twin beds £5 10s. bedroom suite £l2 10s, large table 12s 6d, four-piece oak bedroom suite £l3, £l4, wool mattress £1 17s 6d. baby duchesse £1 15s, records 10s, 11s, curtain net £l. secretaire £1 ss. 601 b kapoc £2 15s, mirror chest £3 19s 6d, wire couch £1 ss, bed and wire £3 ss. wool mattress £2 7s 6d, three-piece suite £l2 13s, enamel suite £7 7s. duclitesse chest £2, gateleg table £2 15s 6d. 6 Sale of Furnishings. Messrs H. G. Livingstone and Co. report a marked improvement in prices of furnishings sold in their rooms on Wednesday when a large quantity of household goods were disposed of to a crowded room. The following are some of the prices realised:—Mahogany sideboard £24, walnut tables £B. £6 2s 6d, drawleaf table £5, six dining chairs £7 10s. washing machine £26, pedestal desks £3 15s, £3 10s, wardrobe £4, china cabinet. £4. gas cooker £2 10s, small buffet and table £5, anvil £1 ss. duchesse chests from £2 ss, linoleum £3 1 Ss. 3ft kapoc mattresses £1 12s, office chair £l, small settle £l, two armchairs £2. armchair £l. bookshelf 10s, pieces runner £1 ss, £1 2s 6d. China and sundries sold at satisfactory prices. 4 Clearing Sales. H. C. Smith, of the City Market, held two successful clearing sales, one on account of Mrs Limin, Lake Terrace Road, and the other on account of Mr A. F. Wilkins, Winters Road, Papanui. Prices were as follows:—Sixty pairs pullets Ss to 12s, 60 pairs yearling hens 4s 6d to 6s 6d. weaner pigs 11s 6d to 12s 6d, Ford car £3S, aged geldings £8 10s, £7 10s, cows £6 17s 6d, £3, £7 12s 6d, £5 ss, £7, £5 2s 6d. £5 15s. £4 15s, £2. £4 ss, £5 7s 6d, £4 15s, £4 7s 6d, £3 10s, heifers £2 17s 6d, £8 ss, store cows 25s to 40s, milk drums 325, stack hay £l3 10s, £6 10s, farm trolley £3, chain harrow £4, three harrows £3 10s. two horse trees 27s 6d. garden plough £4 7s 6d, separator £3, 110 sacks 6d teach, collar and hames 345, potatoes £3, mangolds £7 10s and £4 2s 6d, turnips £4 10s, stack sheaves £5 10s, clippers 12s Gd. Furniture and effects sold freely. 6 Railway Auction Yards. The Railway Auction Yards report having sold at auction and privately the following: Chesterfield suite £l2 ss, wardrobe £4 ss. £2 ss. secretaire £2 15s, china cabinet £3 17s 6d, Morris suite £4 10s. sewing machine £2, £1 10s, Scotch chest £1 10s. chest drawers £1 2s Gd, cupboard 17s 6d. 10s, easy chair £2 10s, child’s chair 12s 6d, gateleg table 17s 6d. duchesse £1 13s Gd. lino 17s 6d, 15s. rug 10s, mattress 19s Gd. single bed £1 ss. overmantle 13s Gd. 10s, 7s 6d. sideboaid £1 17s 6d, mattress 17s 6d, easy chair £1 ]os. organ 13s Gd, table ss, tea waggon 12s Gd. mattress £1 12s Gd, four pillows at 3s 9d each, office desk £2, four chairs at 9s 6d each, office chair 10s, couch £l, stretcher £1 4s, 15s. iron bed and wire 15s, small chest drawers 7s 6 cl. floorcovering at 3s lid. 2’yds carpet 13s 9d cabinet 17s 6d, four dining chairs £2. office table £1 ss, chest 12s 6d, meat safe 18s, table mangle 12s Gd, hand barrow 17s Gd. printing press 15s. sink 12s 6d. wire gate 7s 6d, | scales 10s Gd. petrol lamp 15s, keg 6s, churn ss, two cream cans 12s, copper 1

10s. 5-gal. paint Bs, timber £4 19s 6d, £1 Bs. £1 10s, 10s and 12s, 3-ply ss, coil netting £1 3s 6d, 12s 3d. coil wire Bs, set harness £3, shaper £3 15s, Drummond harrows £4. Duncan cultivator £l2, Douglas motor-cycle £2 10s, box cart £2 10s. Fiat tourer £ls, set 4horse blocks £3 ss, d.f. plough £ll 10s, onions is 6d. wheat 11s 6cl to 13s. 6 Farmers’ Saleyards. Farmers’ Saleyards reports that the inquiry for farm implements and good working horses is still very keen. A total of twenty-six horses was yarded at yesterday’s auction. Prices for the week’s sales were as follows:—Chestnut gelding, aged, £2 15s: bay gelding, aged, £l9; half-draught black gelding, aged, £l6; half-draught mare, Syrs. £l7: bay mare, aged. £2 10s: bay gelding, £l7 Is; black gelding, aged, £4: bay gelding, aged, £2 7s 6d, £4 10s; chestnut mare, yrs, £5 ss; cob gelding, 30s: bay gelding, 10s; bay mare, £l6. Collar, hames and winkers, 335; collar and hames, £1 Is; saddle. £2 ss; odd harness, 12s; collar, 30s: three new collars, £5 2s 6d: three pairs new winkers, £2 ss: three pairs hames, 15s; spring dray. £10; box cart, £5 10s; gig, £8; set three-leaf harrows. £4 ss; single harrows, 255; blocks and chains, £3; four horse covers, £6 ss; timber. £lB 7s 3d: chaff. 2s 9d to 3s; biscuit meal, 4s to ss; wheat, 9s to 13s; oats, 10s to 12s 6d; pig meal. 3s 6d to 7s; hay, 2s to 2s 9d; potatoes, 9s 6d per sack. 6