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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 17, 21 January 1942, Page 8

AUCTION SALES SHARPE, NORTH & CO.’S ROOMS TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), JAN. 21. AT 1 P.M. MR. W. K. LAW’S SALE. GOOD PIANO, OAK AND RIMU FURNITURE, & REQUISITES. SHARPE, NORTH & CO will sell by public auction:— GOOD-TONED PIANO, cabt. gramophone and records, Singer sewing machine, elect, vac. cleaner, large rimu b.m. sideboard, dining table, 3 mahogany h.b. chairs, 4 rimu h.b. chairs, 2 oak carvers, seagrass tea wagon, seagrass chairs, occ. tables, med. cabt., box-end kerb, glass-top occ. tables, escritoire, easy chairs, pictures, books, hall stand, bookshelves, lino, oak bedroom suite (db. bed and wire, b.m. wardrobe and duchess), stretcher, single and double rimu beds and wires, stretcher, 3 b.m. rimu duchesses, large rimu b.m. wardrobe, spare oak duchess and pedestal, b.m. cheval, kapoc mattresses, " rimu bed and wire, kitchen table, chairs, small sideboard, crockery, kitchen utensils, carpet sweeper, tricycle, lawnmower, meat safe, netting, girdle, and sundries. 3.LSO: Large glass bookcase and cheffonier, large office desk and pigeon holes, fruit, produce, and poultry. C. J. SHARPE, Auctioneer and Valuer.

Horses on Milk Rounds. The Wellington City Council's milk department has always maintained a policy of using horses to the fullest extent possible on its delivery rounds. About 80 to 85 per cent, of the department's milk delivery is done by horses, and there are 52 horse carts on the road. Costing £3O to £4O each, the horses have been found to be cheapest from the point of view of capital investment and maintenance, and far less noisy than motor vehicles. It has been found that horses get to know the round just as well as their drivers, and know just where to stop and start. The average period spent by a horse between ithe shafts of the municipal milk cart is eight to 10 years, but after he has finished his days on the city streets [he is still useful for light farm work.