“TWO-TON BARNEY” SOLD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 2

“TWO-TON BARNEY” SOLD

LARGE SUM REALISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. The finances of the recently established Union Jack Club received a substantial fiillip yesterday at the National fat stock market, at Addington, by the sale of an outsize bullock, “TwoTon Barney,” given by Messrs J. and F. Johns (Devonvale), in aid of the funds of the club. The animal was one of the sideshow attractions at the Centennial Exhibition. He is of exceptional size ,turning the scale recently at 28001 b. The rails and other vantage points and the footways, during the sale, were crowded with farmers and others, including a number of visitors in town for National Week. Bids were taken from £5 upward, and there was a steady barrage of them as the sale proceeded, the animal being reoffered after each one. Several substantial bids of £ 100 and more quickly swelled the total. Bids by telephone took the sum to nearly £BOO, when the animal was offered finally for disposal. He then fell to the bid of Mr V. E. Dockery, at £46, the total received at this point being £Bll.

Of this amount several substantial contributions were made by the Thacker family, of’Okain’s Bay—Messrs C. B. Thacker £l5O, J. E. Thacker £ll5, H. T. Thacker £llO, and Mrs J. E. Thacker £lOO, a total of £475. Subsequent contributions at the yards of £1 and larger amounts by telephone brought the total to nearly £9OO, and it is expected that when the list closes tonight the £lOOO objective will be, reached.