BIDDING AT SALES.
METHODS OF STOCK DEALERS. A farmer at the Pahiatua stock sales remarked to a reporter that, it was wonderful how auctioneers managed to detect the bids from stock dealers (relates the Pahiatua “Herald”). He had watched carefully many times, and very rarely noticed a dealer bidding, and yet they bought the stuff. The dealers, of pourse, do not, bid in the same open way that many farmers do. They do not, for instance, believe in disclosing to the right hand what the left doeth. If farmers are intensely interested in this mystery, they had better note the actions of one dealer at, a time. They will probably notice him suddenly contract the habit of touching his nose repeatedly, as if some small insect was causing annoyance. Or if the farmer casts his eyes in the region of the vest he will probably find that’ the dealer has sorted out a particular butt,on, and has suddenly taken a fancy to it. There are a great many more ways of recording a bid than by a sly wink or a nod.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4561, 9 May 1923, Page 1
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182BIDDING AT SALES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4561, 9 May 1923, Page 1
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