REWARD OF £1,000

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 8

REWARD OF £I,OOO

AUCKLAND SCRAP IRON COES TO FRISCO BUSY WHARF SCENE There is a reward or £I.OOO await. ] tng the person who can overstock Sfr ! Kirschenbaum with scrap iron 2 ; a more important announcement per i haps, is the tact that Mr. Kirschen j haum is a keen buyer of old iron, and j this morning he was busy at the weigh. . bridge at the King's Wharf deuUi2 with numbers of earnest sellers. As far as is known, no one is yet line for the handsome reward which : is offering, and it cun possibly be re- | garded in the light of a unique advertising draw. Hut many are taking j the opportunity of clearing their \v..rk- | shops, backyards and rubbish dips 1 discarded iron, and tiiere was a ccusj tinual stream of motor-lorries, bearing | a varied collection, to the Kings ; Wharf this morning, when purchasingoperations commenced. For the most part, it is the big ser foundries and engineering shops which are taking advantage of the offer, f or it is stipulated that the only iron required will be solid pieces of not more than live feet in length and in lota of not less than one ton. Old bedsterds piping or sheet iron, plain or salvan-’ j \sed. is not accepted. And it was an amazing collection which was seen being loaded from the numerous lorries this morning into the hold of the steamer Golden Cross which is to bear the unusual care_> t, Ban Fran- o