RUSH FOR COUNCIL SECTION
ONE APPLICANT WAITS FOUR HOURS For more than four hours on Monday morning a young married man waited outside the City Council offices in Manchester street with £175 in his pocket to buy a section in Redruth avenue, which was advertised for sale by the council on Saturday. He took up his post •at 4.40 a.m., and when the offices opened there were 19 more applicants in a queue behind him. Part of the council’s section is required as a site for a power station, and the council decided to make the ■remainder available as a building site for a home for a returned serviceman. A number of inquiries were received, and offers to purchase were made, but the council decided that it would be fairer to advertise the section for sale. Nearly all the applicants for the section yesterday were returned servicemen. After they had left the City Council offices, more than a dozen written applications for the section were received. All will be considered by the council’s finance committee. The purchase will later have to be approved by the Land Sales Committee.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25243, 23 July 1947, Page 3
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