AUCTION SALE DRAPERY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8832, 7 June 1907, Page 2

AUCTION SALE DRAPERY.

AIS Next Week. The Manufacturers’ Direct Importing Company to-day announce on unreserved slaughter of general drapery in Marton. This company, which has just concluded successful sales of general drapery, etc., in Palmerston, Feildiug, and other towns, commissioned Mr \V. H. Hawkins during his recent visit to England to purchase goods direct from the makers and ship them direct to Now Zealand to be offered by public auction to consumers. So far tile sales have boon wonderfully successful. The goods are all of high grade. It will be remembered that the auctioneer of the company, Mr Hawkins, represented Pahiatua in the last Parliament. The sale begins on Tuesday next at 1.30 p.m., and continues all the week. Each day at 1.80 p.m. dress materials, blankets, rugs, boots, Nottingham lace curtains, calicoes, sheetings, flannellettes, eider down quilts, 9 carat gold rings, English hall-marked, crockery and glassware. A special feature of these sales is the fact that every article for which a bid is accepted is knocked down to the highest bidder, whether the- price reaches cost or not. The goods and prices have proved an exciting revelation in other towns.. The sale begins in the auction rooms lately occupied by Mr Ken Keagle, Broadway, on Tuesday next at 1.30 p.m.