No Woolgathering
N a recent Monday 42 wool-buyers gathered to spend £500,000 at the first wool sale to be held in Auckland for seven years, and their antics were broadcast by 1YA, Gordon Hutter making a brave attempt to keep pace. From the first words he sounded as if he were busy in the box at Ellerslie. "They're on their toes," he said, "but the auctioneer is waiting for the stroke of nine o'clock. It won’t be long now before they’re on their way." Any mom-
ent I expected him to pick up Kindergarten or someone working round the barrier. Instead he announced that he missed a few familiar faces from the benches but could recognise many others. That was about all the comment he had time to make; in the first five minutes, to give you an idea of the speed, they disposed of 25 lots, sometimes passing three in succession, at other times clamouring and beating a price up by one, a-half, a-three across three or four exciting pennies and subdivisions of pennies. At my end of the radio the whole thing sounded most stirring and exciting; at Gordon Hutter’s end I imagine it was pretty warm going, with no time for woolgathering. Yet on the benches only one coat, it was reported, was discarded.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 10
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217No Woolgathering New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 10
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