PROPERTIES WORTH £17,000 COME BEFORE COMMITTEE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1947, Page 6

PROPERTIES WORTH £17,000 COME BEFORE COMMITTEE

If all the applications for permission to transfer, properties which were dealt with by the Westland Land Sales Committee at Hokitika on Monday are completed, some large tracts of land on the West Coast will change hands. No fewer than ten large land transactions were approved by the committee on Monday, the total area involved being in excess of 40,000 acres. For this land, the committee decided that an amount in the vicinity of £17,000 should be paid. One further application to sell 877 acres for £2,300 was adjourned. • These big land deals are as follows, all being granted except where otherwise stated: — ,G. C. Mclntosh to H. N. Mclntosh (210 acres 1 rood 6 perches) Mahinapua S.D. —Price £ 1350. W. H. Robinson to Noah Harris (555 acres 2 roods 27 perches) Mahinapua S.D. —Price £l7OO. E. W. Osborne and W. Osborne as executors in estate of W. Nagel to R. H. Mehrtens and E. A: Mehrtens as trustees for Henry James Mehrtens (351 acres 2 roods 30 perches), Mahinapua S.D., an undivided fifth share. Price £4OO. W. H. Robinson to F. H. Mehrtens and E. A. Mehrtens an undivided three-fifths share as tenant-in-com-mon, Mahinapua S.D. —Price £l3BO. Margaret Wall to F. D. Wall (343 acres 0 roods 10 perches) Wanganui S.D.—Price £2OOO. W. D. Nolan to W. D. Nolan Jnr. (10 acres 3 roods 10 perches), Okuru S.D.—Price £5O. W. D. Nolan to W. D. Nolan Jnr. R. P. Nolan, D. J. Nolan, E. J. Nolan and Kevin Nolan (682 acres 2 roods 34 perches). Okuru, Arawata and Mataketake S.Ds. and (180 acres 2 roods 39 perches), Okuru S.D.—Price £3,522.

J. L. Tavener to T. M. Jackson (Freehold 324 ac. Ird 11 perches, Otira S.D. Leasehold: 157 ac. Ird. 19 perches, Teremakau S.D. and Otira S.D.)—Price £2,500. A. R. Elcock'and P. H. Renton as trustees of Wm. Berry deed, to G. D. Berry and V. A. Berry (1) 692 acres 2 roods. Wanganui S.D. and (2) 293 acres Mt. Bonar S.D.—Price £3,700. —Reduced to £3,200. T. Nolan to R. E. Nolan (877 acres freehold) Wataroa S.D.—Price £2300. —Adjourned for hearing.

W. Smith to P. J. Nolan Wataroa S.D. (470 acres). Price £l5O p.a. with option to purchase at £5,000, — Granted lease at £l5O p.a. Other Transactions • Other applications granted areas fellows:— N. J. Paterson to W. J. Provis, Jollie street, Hokitika (2 roods 19 perches). Price £soo.—Granted subject to reduction to £4OO.

Public Trustee in estate George Shaw to S. D. T. Taylor, Faversham, Mawheranui S.D. (1 rood). A. Crowe to H. W. Stewart, Greymouth (24 perches). Price £450. A. R. Elcock in estate D. Y. Bradley to W. E. Richards and Son, Revell street, Hokitika (6 perches). Price £llO.

T. Nolan to J. R. Giles, Wataroa S.D. (2 roods 4 perches). Price £3OO. —Reduced to £270.

William Thomson to C. A. Cooper, Kanieri S.D. —Price £42.

Among those applications adjourned for hearing were the following:—

A. C. Bruhn to A< McDonald (area 2 roods 10 perches), Dominion Hotel, Blackball (one-half interest only), price £4014 12s sd. H. S. Black and T. E. Coates to G. H. Spriggs (32 perches), Omoto, price £l3O. —Hearing at Greymouth on Friday.

M. Keeney to A. M. Rodgers, Puketahi street, Greymouth (area 26 perches), price £l2s.—Hearing on Friday.

M. E. Kennedy to P. A. Pearson, Preston road, Greymouth (1 rood 6.4 perches), price £2B.—Hearing Friday.

E. E. Batty to A. Roberts (20.5 perches). Ward street, Cobden, price £lBO. —Hearing Friday. E. E. Batty to C. MacDonald (30.5 perches), Ward street, Cobden, price £ 180.—Hearing Friday. J. Rathbun to A. R. Thompson, Bridge street, Greymouth (32 perches), price £2Bs.—Hearing Friday. M. A. M. Coakley to H. E. Dando (1 rood), Blake street, Blaketown.— Hearing Friday. A. L. Downing to J. C. Hurren (one-half interest), Weld street, Hokitika, price £455. —Hearing date to be arranged. P. R. Quinn Motors to D. H. Rose and M. D. Baxter, Sewell street, Hokitika, price £22oo.—Withdrawn.

At last evening’s meeting of the Board of Control of the West Coast League a motion of sympathy was passed to the relatives of the late Mr A. Mooney. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Robert McTaggart was passed at the meeting of the Runanga Borough Council last evening. Mr McTaggart was a former mayor of the borough. • , , Tine funeral of Mr John Deere took place at Karoro Cemetery this morning. Requiem Mass was celebrated by Monsignor J. Long, while Rev. Fathers V. Flaherty and Leonard were in the sanctuary. Monsignor Long also conducted the service at the graveside, where there was a large attendance, and he was assisted by the Rev. Fathers Flaherty, Leonard, Foley, O’Brien and Healy,