BRISK BIDDING FOR SECTIONS
EIGHT SOLD LAST , , EVENING More than 250 persons crowded Into a Christchurch auction room last evening for the sale, of eight sections at the corner of Queensbury street and New Brighton road, Burwood. Bidding for most of the sections was very keen, two of them reaching £B4O. Some bidders offered advances greater th g. tt^.'ou,hl^ the auctioneer. lae sections, which were offered on ’““E* £ Bandolph Haflfenden than three miles from Cathe- : r ° rm eriy market gardent"fhJ and ' are level and read y lor building. Some of them already have fences or hedges on one or two sides, m wL d sections offered were ”ew Brightoiwroad, each having an «!*?• V 24-1 perches and a frontage of 9 ‘T 5 ™ of them realised £605 and the third £640. .TS, re ,® ? ec t>ons, each With a frontage or 76 links to Queensbury street and an area of 26.5 perches, were offered next. The first of these sold for £640, 5535 eC ° n<l lOr £590, and 4118 third tor The two remaining sections were back sections with a mutual right-of-way from Queensbury street, the area of each being 53 perches. The first £470 realiaed £s, ° and the other
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 10
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