SEVEN PROPERTIES SOLD

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 14

SEVEN PROPERTIES SOLD

Three houses were sold at public auction yesterday by Mr N. H. McCrostie. An old-type house on a section of one rood 16.5 perches, zoned residential B, at 83 Cranford street, St. Albans, was sold for £3500. A house at 71 Randolph street, Linwood, was sold for £1350. The house has two livingrooms, three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, and laundry. Outbuildings on the section of 34 perches include a detached room, glasshouse, and coalshed. It was a mortgagee's sale. A furnished cottage at Arthurs Pass was sold for £lOOO. The property was offered on account of the Can-

terbury-Westland branch of the Tuberculosis Association. The opening bid was £BOO. There was one bid of £lOO, one of £5O, and two of £25. Three of four lots of the Pigeon Bay Dairy Factory, Ltd.’s property were sold by Mr D. R. Smith. The factory building and a 39 x 36 foot concrete building, together with 66.5 perches of land were sold for £450. A three-bedroomed house on a section of 25.1 perches brought £l3OO, and a section of 39 perches was sold for £3OO. A two-bedroomed house on a section of 33.5 perches was ipassed in at £l2OO. Offered on account of Annie Margaret Ness, a bungalow at 596 Worcester street, Linwood, was passed in at £2lOO when it did not reach the reserve of £2200. The auctioneer was Mr E. G. Keenan. The house, on a section of 23.6 perches, has three bedrooms, two living-rooms, kitchenette, bathroom and laundry. A brick bungalow at 67 Mahars road has been sold by private treaty by N. H. McCrostie and Company. The property was passed in at £4BOO when offered at auction on Wednesday.