LAND SUB-DIVISION AT KAIATA: DEMAND FOR SECTIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1948, Page 2

LAND SUB-DIVISION AT KAIATA: DEMAND FOR SECTIONS

The demand for building sites in the Kaiata district, which was described as having progressed steadily since the first sub-division was made, was referred to at this morning’s sitting at Greymouth of the Westland Land Sales Committee. Applications for consent to the sale of two sections in a new nine-section sub-division near the golf links road for £l2O each, were before the committee, the vendors being Muir Bros (Mr C. R. McGinley) and the purchasers Charles E. Watson and Russell Eder.

Sections in a nearby sub-division were sold for £lO5, it was stated, but it was considered that those under consideration were better. A total of 30 to 35 modern houses made up the township and 12 of these had been sold in the early 1930’s for £lOO each, said Mr G. F. Shallcrass valuer for the vendor. Prior to the latest sub-divisions being made, there were no vacant sections available in the area. The sections which he said were flat, fertile, dry and cleared of heavy blackberry, he valued at £ll5 for the larger and £llO for the smaller.

A scattered rural district was the description given by the State Advances valuer, Mr I. P. McMillan to the Kaiata area. Seeing the committee had placed a value of £lO5 on sections in Coates’s sub-division and that those under consideration were lower-lying and in a rougher state with a southerly as opposed to a more favourable northerly aspect, he assessed the value of the lots at £BO.

The committee reserved its decision pending an inspection of the sub-di-vision.