PATRIOTIC WOOL-BUYERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 7

PATRIOTIC WOOL-BUYERS

£250 FOR NOTHING,

It was not wool alone that was Bold at the Concert Chamber yesterday morning. Before the wool buyers beean to invest their thousands in the , fleece; Mr. Walter Hill, the doyen of buyers, offered for sale. a '-'watch-chain' made of small nuggets of gold and a nugget breast-pin; on behalf of a patriotic Koss miner, who wished'to make the amount realised a contribution to the Lady Liverpool Fund. ' Mr. Hill drew a graphic picture of the sufferings and hardships that were' being endured by the people of Belgium, France, and Great Britain as. the result of the. war, compared with the conditions enjoyed in New Zealand. Ho appealed to the wool-growers, who were benefiting by the enhanced: prices 'caused by the adversities of others, to rise to. the occasion, and mako handsome bids for the articles to be sold.- The bidding'started at £10,- and went as high' as £12, and was knocked down and resold many femes, each'buyer handing it v back" until when the total had reached'- £250 it was knocked down finally to'.'Mr.' A. H. Miles (resident 'partner ->6f ."Murray, Roberts and Co.), who banded-it over to the Fund to bo sold oEsoino future .occasions ' ■■'■■■'■;.<'■ ' ■

.One of the £1 paper notes issued by the British Government just" after the outbreak of the war was then offered for sale in the same manner by ''■•Mγ'.- , Hill, and the "scrap of paper" was sold over and over again until the sum of £31 had been netted for the tToppers' tobacco fund. The.final bidder handed in the note'to besold again for the; benefit of the same fund. ' ,J :'''-;■• -' :