Equipment used in the Rena clean-up has gone under the hammer, fetching more than $60,000.
The new and used goods, including 1500 shovels, 2500 gumboots, 2000 rakes and 18 paddling pools was auctioned by Turners on behalf of Maritime New Zealand, attracting a crowd of 200 people.
Turners branch manager
Carl Jarmin said 95 per cent of the goods were sold during the three-hour auction, with buyers from as far afield as Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North and Auckland.
Negotiations were continuing over the remaining "specialty products".
The largest single items to sell were pallets of absorbent, for $550 each. Among the more obscure items were penguin catcher nets, sold to a Catholic church, he said.