JAP CONSULATE SOLD UP

Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1946, Page 4

JAP CONSULATE SOLD UP

— Press Association

Bv Telegravh-

WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. A large framed rising sun eclipsed by a Union Jack hung aeross it by the auctioneer 's staff, was prominent in the backgrouiul of an unusual auetion sale lveld at Wellington todav by order of .the War Assets Realisfition Board. The Isale was of tlie furnisjiings and generhl -effeets tliat forinerly' belonged. to tlie Japanese Consul-General; residihgVbUt Wellington and it * attracted a great erowd. Two rising suns went early, one for £2 and the other for 10s. "Take it home and use it for a dartboard." advised hhe auctioneer as a woniau purchaser of one of tlie emblems took deliverv. The prices throughout were lirm and the sale went on in an atniospliere of good huniour. mainly directed at the departed Japanese, until two magnificent canteens of cutlery, not of Japanese nrake, were put up. One purchaser took both canteens for £280. Two large blue and white vases brouglit £25 each while one chnsonne vase brouglit £4(1 and another £41. A 22-carat gold dinner service of 18(5 pieces, exeluding tea and cofl'ee cups and saucers, was one of the higli'liglits of the sale. It went for 12s 6d a pieee, one buyor taking the lot. Tlie cups and saucers realised 18s a set.