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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 20

AUCTION SALES Evine and company, • AUCTION ROOMS, 107, CUSTOMHOUSE QUAY. Clearing Sales conducted in City or Country at short notice. Mart Soles regularly. Mondays and Fridays. IMPORTANT SALE AT FEATHERSTON MILITARY CAMP FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, At 12 Noon. Messrs dalgety and co., ltd., acting under instructions * from General Headquarters, New Zealand Military Forces, Wellington, will sell by public auction at above time and place, numerous buildings, hutments, etc., for removal. Principal offerings will be as follows : 26 Hutments, 120 ft x 20ft. 2 Dining Rooms, 112£t x 56ft. 4 Stores 142 ft x 16ft, 81ft x 39ft 6in, 24ft x 18ft, 65ft x 31ft. Staff Officers’ Mess 120 ft x 20ft. 3 Workshops 64ft x 14ft, 82ft x 15ft, 37ft x l°ft 1 Orderlies" Hutt 120 ft. x 20ft and numerous other buildings. Buildings constructed mainly of wood with Malthoid roofing. Complete schedule of all buildings to be offered with special conditions of halo can be obtained from any of our Branches and Agencies in the District. All buildings are numbered to agree with schedule, and intending purchasers have right to inspect any time up to day of Sale. Schedule will be posted to any address on application to DALGETY AND COMPANY, LIMITED, Wellington, Auctioneers. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CARPET BUYERS. GREAT SALE OF CARPETS. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND BUY CARPETS, RUGS, RUNNERS, AND LINOLEUMS AT THE CARPET WAREHOUSE, WILLESTON STREET. The Largest Range_ of Designs in the Dominion. P/I AflA WORTH OF HIGHEST3fc4UUU GRADE ENGLISH WILTON and ENGLISH AXMINSTER CARPET SQUARES (in most exclusive designs). Larger stock than ever. Goods just landed. Every carpet and rug guaranteed. No better quality imported into the Dominion. Highest-grade Carpets at prices that will astonish you. Come and Inspect for Yourselves. Open from 9 till 5. AT THE CARPET WAREHOUSE, Willeston street, opp. Bing, Harris and Co. See Flag. E. JOHNSTON AND CO., Auctioneers, SUBDIVISIONAL SALE. pAHAUTANUI FARMS FOR SALE BY AUCTION, JANUARY, 1927. By Order of the PUBLIC TRUSTEE. In the Estate of JAMES GRAY, DECEASED. DIVIDED INTcTfOUR LOTS: LOT A— 222 ACRES. LOT 8—1219 ACRES. LOT C— 76 ACRES. LOT D- 115 ACRES. Also, 3 Ideal Building Sections situated at Plimmerton. Full Particulars will be advertised in later issues, or from the Auctioneers— LEVIN AND CO., LTD., Wellington ; ABRAHAM AND WILLIAMS, LTD., Wellington, And the DISTRICT PUBLIC TRUSTEE, AVellington. 292

ATTACKED BY PET DEER While walking on Woodstown beach, County Waterford, a party of five young girls and a boy were attack.;! by a pet deer. The animal jumped on Miss Jlar.v Scanlon, beating her to the ground and injuring her right leg. It then turned on the other members of the party, but Miss Molly Mooney, of Waterford, seized the deer by the horns, and, with the help of the remainder of the party, succeeded in holding it at bay until a number of men arrived and drove it away. Miss Alooney was severely kicked in the body. PENSIONER ROBBED Harvey Bennett (.33), a draper's salesman, was sent to prison for two months iff the second division by the Birmingham magistrates for stealing ;t'7 from an old-age pensioner from whom 110 rented two rooms at Harborne. it was stater! that the pensioner, Mr Walter Barker, received an advance from a building society to buy a house, and 1 that he entrusted the fortnightly pny- ! ments cf £1 each to Bennett. Bcnue'ct used the money to pay the rent of the two rooms. He admitted intercepting letters from the building society. CLOUDS OF MOSQUITOES During a recent afternoon band performance on the Southend Pier in England, a dense cloud of mosquitoes I came in with the tide, and for half an hour smothered the large holiday crowd. 1 Hundreds of people sitting on deckchairs rushed to shelters, and several bandsmen were temporarily placed out of action. Two young women fainted through excitement and pain. FIREMEN ATTACKED BY WASPS While attending a stack fire recentlv the firemen of Peterborough encountered a second enemy with which to battle. The motor-pump was in operation when one of the wheels dropped into a wasps’ nest,. The amazed insects emerged nnd attacked tlic firemen with a will, so much so that seven members of fb ' brigade bad to receive first-aid treatment. One of the giant sequio trees of California. which is lying on the ground and fell manv years ago. was re-er - l Of} ft high, and is 100 ft round at the base.