SOME GUESSES AT THE PRICE.
.(Per Press Association—Copyright). LQNDON, December ,17. At the rate paid for adjoining land, the price of the Duke of Bedford's land is £9,000,000. Other estimates are £1,800,000, plus the capital | value of the Covent Garden tolls; which ! produce £.25,000 annually, and the j ground rent of the Opera House and three theatres, Which bring in £24,000 a year. When the founder of the Bedford family obtained the land the estimated value was £126 8s annually. The Duke of Bedford sold 19,000 acres in Cambridgeshire in 1909, and 17,752 acres at Tavistock in 1911. ■: Mr Deeley'is father was a wealthy Liverpool merchant. Mr Frank Curzon, the theatrical manager, is his younger brother. ' Mr Deeley, in an interview, stated that he was not backed by a syndicate. The purchase was entirely" a private investment, and the property would not' be sold to a company. He did not desire to disclose the price, He did not fear Mr Lloyd George's land proposals, so long as they did not mean downright confiscation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8744, 18 December 1913, Page 5
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