OLD BOOKS AND CURIOS
values often exaggerated
Christchurch, Sept 1 Commenting on a statement by the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund. Mr G. A. Hayden, that old books and curios of value collected for the Churchill auctions were worth about £40.000. Mr E. J. Bell, librarian of the Canterbury Public Library, said he was inclined to doubt whether the true value was l-20th of the stated sum. Owners of old books and curios, he said, often placed a fictitious \alue on them, and possibly Mr Hayden had been guided by this. “For instance, a book thought to be worth £3O or more was recently found to be worth about 305,” added MiBell. “I could go on describing scores of such instances which have come under my notice during the last 30 years. Possibly those persons interested in art have found the same exaggerated values placed upon pictures.”—P.A'.
SENTENCED I OR CONSPIRACY New York, Sept. 1. Ernest Weber, formerly of the German army, Richard Freundt, formerly of the German navy, and Peter Donay, formerly of the United Slates army, were each sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment for conspiring to transmit defence information to Germany.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 3 September 1942, Page 6
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