ASHBURTON LAND SALES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 8

ASHBURTON LAND SALES.

. A number of important land . .It* s were conducted or Ashburton en Sat. " "urday. and although only a few of th» _,! properties offered changed hands, there "V was. a good atteiidauce ai.d keen in-terr-st was evidenced. s Tho New Zealand Farmers'Coopera- /i tive A&.ociaticn offered en account c.f Mr Hugh Kennedy a farm of 0.3 ' acres, situation at Greenstreot. about four miles out of A-.ibur.ou, and knowi *, as "Corbett's Farm.' It was startod ■? at £20 an acre and pa_-~d in at £21 '** £ Messrs H. Mat-011 and Co. offered on account of _.li-s. .1. J. Adams, a property contaiuiug 19 acres 2 roc.L_ 10perch.3 - * of land situated on tho Wakanuiroad,. "*!?' Ashburton, which .raj? passed iv, no *"* ' offer beins: made: and also on n&sJ count of Mr R. J. Hughes, a sectriP\& o»" laud and house containing six part of tho oriciual Duffv's estate, \ * which was passed in at £2.50. For hve <• 0 building sections adjoining,; no offer ' J uas mado. A four-roomed cottng. aiul 5 a quarter-aero of laud, frontitig tin. r-J North-east bolt, offered on account of '" , . Mr J. C. Cawsey. was passed in at £ICO. A half-aero section with ,fcarroonic<l house, at the corner ot" the North-cast and South-east lit Its, offeroi on account of Mr John Moffatt,' was passed in ot £300. A mmiher of s building sections were offered and pas_ed. Tl-o National T\longagc» and Agency Company sold at auction, on account of the Timvald Domain Board, tho* lenses for three years of (54 acres (the r-iefcours-) to Jlr C. Rcid, at an annual rental of'los 6d an acre; 37 acres to Mr F. J.. Shearer at a rental'of 2CV. an acre: 08 acres to Mr A. J. Keith, at a rental of 24s an acre; and 1 acres ' to .Mr T. Bradley at a rental of 4& an acre. Tho goodwill of Government sections at Hind.., containing 394 acros, offered on account of Mr C S. Jolriston, was withdrawn at £4 7s Q& an acre. _ilr H. Stephenson offered om aooonnt of the Ashburton Borough Council, a number of town - building -dtes. situated in Wills street, near the Domain .Sales were effected a& . follor™-— Quarter-acre, 30s per year, for a term cf 7 years, Mr. E. F. Xicoll. :. T S . containing quarter-acre, £8 10s for j the first 7 years,-50 added for \ flic next 7 years, and an additional 33 per cent for the third term, Mr N. .C. Jones." T\S 1075, corner of Will, and Wint.r streets, containing quarter-acre,. £4 per year for the first. 7 years, and an additional increase-of £1 for each term of_7 years, .Mr R. yt. Sievwright. Ti. 107J, adjoining, was -soldto Mr H. v Rands at £3, on' the same terms. *