Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg51
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Auction Sales for War Funds
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg51 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1916 |
| Page number | Unknown |
| Publisher | Reading Standard |
| Description | 224 pages bound volume |
| Horizon Number: | 1246254 |
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AUCTION SALES FOR WAR FUNDS.
Live and Dead Stock Given for Charitable Objects.
The agricultural community, the meat trade and the auctioneering profession in the county heave lent a helping hand to the movements on behalf of distressed Belgians or British Tommies. At markets, stockbreeders presented specimens from their flocks and herds to be sold for the benefit of the Belgian Relief Fund, the Red Cross Society or the Royal Berks Regiment Comforts Fund as the giver elected, and remarkable scenes ensued in the auction ring of one person buying a lot and immediately returning it to be resold.At Newbury where £200 was raised at a single sale, a goose was resold fifty times and the proceeds were £78 10s. The record price of £125 was paid for a fat hog offered at Reading Market, where even children took their pet rabbits to be sold in aid of Belgian orphans, and several Belgian children gave boxes of chocolates in the name of sweet charity.
Photo by A COW AND CALF WHICH REALISED OVER £50 [C. E. May.
An auction sale of all sorts of articles presented by the people of Reading and the county was held at Reading for the benefit of the National Relief Fund, which receive £400. Our picture shows the sale of a trap outside the Municipal Buildings.