EARLY AUCTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23112, 10 August 1938, Page 10

EARLY AUCTION

vmm LAND AT REMTJEM/fJ§ v . —— ! FIVE ACRES BRING £165 SOME PRICES THOUGHT HIGH^ Five acres in the best part ol Remuera for £165. No, this is not a for-sale offer, but a quotation from an auction sale list of 1855. The sale wa| arranged by the Commissioners of tha Waste Land Board, Messrs. Charles J. Taylor, Joseph May and G. 0. Ormsby] Fifty-four lots, aggregating about 250 acres, were sold for a total sum of about £BSOO. All were situated in section 16, suburbs of Auckland, the northern boundary of which was" Remuera Road. The eastern boundary v ran down to the harbour froiji the corner of Remuera and Me%lowbank Roads. The western boundary flowed the line of the gully between Seaviq W and Arney Roads. Remuera Road Frontages Top price of the sale was £SOO for ' lot 34 of three acres on the north' side of Remuera Road, a little to the east of where King's School now stands. A Mr. Westwood gave £SOO for' it, and this was considered to be a very high price. No other lot realised a price approaching this one, though compete tion was keen. Lot 148, of six acres, which can now be located between Ventnor and Upland Roads, was sold to a Mr. Hargreaves for £l5O. Eleven and a-half r acres, now bounded on the south by Walton Street, on the north by Ingram Road and on the west by Portland Road, was bought by Mr. W. Aitken for £165. Frontages to Remuera Road commanded the highest prices. The record does not give the sex and, often, not the initial of buyers. Prominent in it are the names of Newman, Greenawav and T. Russell. Other names are Elliott, Sauerbicr, P. Robertson, Lorigan, J. Jones, Osborne, ! Hansard, A. Marshall, Dingwall, W. ' S. Grahame, T. Henderson, Macready, ; Bain, Stevenson, Lambert, Stirratt, | Tutty, Cleghorn, Skeen and W. I. Taylpr. Papakura and Drury .... The upset price of all these sections was much lower than the realisation. That for the three acres bought for £SOO was only £45 7s 6d. The cheaper ones had an upset price equal to about ; £7 an acre. At the same sale sections, most of a ; little over a quarter of an acre, in Papa- / I kura village and the village of Drury | were sold. Prices for those in Papakura : ranged from £4 15s to £3O. For those v" ' | in Drury the range was from £2 to ; £2l. Some of the buyers of Remuera v | land bought also in Papakura and j Drury. Other names were:—Papakura: | Creighton, Sergeant Slattery, Cardwell,- ! C. J. Taylor, Joseph Wilson, Sergeant S Kevey (65th Regiment), King, Brook- ; field, E. Waters, W. Jagger, ; Sergeant Russell (58th Regiment), j Evitt, King, G. Graham, Baber, Harp, j W. C. Wilson, Sam Rout and Cameron. - I Drury: A. Burn, Dry, R. Thompson and McNab.