SUCCESSFUL SALE OF PETONE SECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1904, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL SALE OF PETONE SECTIONS.

There was standing room only in Messrs Macdonald, Wilßon, and Co.'s large auction room last night when that firm offered for sale a portion of the Buick Estate, Petone, divided into fifty sections, j Every section was sold, the proceeds of the sale amounting to £8234 14s. The bidding -was spirited, and for some of the sections there was very keen competition. The sections front Bolton-street and Ade-laide-road, the front-ages ranging from 33ft to 41ft 7in, by depths varying up 'to 191ffc Bin. The following is a schedule of the sections sold : — Amount. Sec. Purchaser. £ s. d. 1 Murphy and Colley ... 569 5 0 2 3 „ » 4 0. Sherratt ..* ... 363 0 0 5 „ 6 W. Meehan 343 0 5 7 „ 8 T. B. Jobson ... -. 148 8 T. B. Jobson 224 10 0 9 G. W. Banks ... „.. 288 15 0 10 11 T. B. Jobson 148 10 0 12 J. T. Hopkins ... „. 144 7 6 13 C. Sherratt 207 12 6 14 A. Samuel 165 3 1 15 R. E. Lucas 165 3 1 16 0. C. Clarke 330 0 0 17 18 A. Westlake ... ... 156 15 0 19 J. C. Gilbert ... w> . 156 15 0 20 H. Savage ... „.. 160 17 6 21 M. M'Cauley .., >; . 305 5 0 22 „ 23 C. Clarke .., t .. 305 5 0 24 „ 25 R. S. Hickling ...- ... 144 7 6 26 R. S. Hickling 125 0 0 27 R. Thompson ... „.. 132 0 0 28 M. M'Cauley 132 0 0 29 J. Chittenden ... s .. 132 0 0 30 J. Coyle 127 17 6 31 W. R. Gilbert 132 0 0 32 W. H. Turvey .., ... 136 2 6 33 P. Connell 144 7 6 34 W. Nicholson 144 7 6 35 J. Warren 144 7 6 36 A. Simmons 144 7 6 37 J. Iloare 148 10 0 38 Mrs. E. Neely 148 10 0 39 Mrs. R. Mills 171 10 7 40 „ „ „.. 197 10 5 41 P. Connell ... „.. 620 0 0 42 „ 43 G. W. Banks .„ ... 208 0 4 44 R. H. Wilson ... t> . 177 11 1 45 W. Grenfell 160 17 6 46 W. Grenfell 160 17 6 47 G. W. Banks ... .... 330 0 0 48 49 Baptist Church 358 5 0 50 „ Totol 8234 14 0 Where two or more sections are sold to the same buyer the price given is for both or all. The sections realised from £4 to £6 10s per foot