SHOPS SOLD FOR A PENNY
: JUKI-; on lir.MoriMST GI.ASGOAY. Juno I.—A man walked into n public auction room in Glasgow, mado a bid of a penny and had knocked down to him within a minute a block of shops witli a rent- roll of ioUti ii year and estimated to lie worth L'ol'.t l). Tho owner, .Mr. A. S. Rickard.. a wealthy property and cinema owner, with a sense ot humour, had, in advcitising the stile marked the reserve price at one -penny. As he had tin auctioneer's certificate In l stepped on the rostrum ol the aucti..n room to conduct the sale hinisi*! i'. He cave tin* briefest of descriptions and called. “What am I bid:-” -“One penny.” was the immediate response. .Mr. Pickard looked round the small company, mostly onloopers from the street. “Gome for a penny ” he called'. No one moved. “Gome, gone!” lie picked nj> Jii.s papers and walked a wav.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 217, 7 August 1939, Page 2
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155SHOPS SOLD FOR A PENNY Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 217, 7 August 1939, Page 2
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