£1000 REDUCTION MADE IN GREY HOTEL SALE

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1949, Page 4

£1000 REDUCTION MADE IN GREY HOTEL SALE

A reduction of almost £lOOO was made by the Westland Land Valuation Committee when it announced its decision yesterday on an application by P. Keating to sell the Central hotel, Greymouth, to C. E. Bourke for £5500. The committee consented to the sale at £4575, indicating that it had reached this decision on the basis of a rental value of £8 a week.

Though formerly known as the Ship Inn, the Central hatel, had a third and yet earlier name, it was reported today, being known in the town’s earliest days as the Rose of Australia.

Other decisions announced yesterday by the committee were as follows:— \

C. E. Cutbush to M: Moore, Ngahere hotel, price £4500. D. S. and C. I. Clay to H. R. Olson, Kaniere S.D., price £750. S. J. Patterson to J. P. and F. M. Carven, Mahinapua, price £2476 10s (land and buildings £1365, chattels £llll 10s).

Blackball Creek Gold Dredging Co. Ltd. to R.' C. Houston, 28 acres, Mawheranui S.D., price £2.

Public Trustee to J. and P. Wildermoth, Greymouth, price £4oo.—Subject to reduction to £360. Associated Gold Dredges (N.Z.) Ltd. to C. E. Logie, Red Jacks, price £620.

E. Lowery to E. McDonald, Blackball, price £650.