SALE OF THE MARINE TOWNSHIP OF PLIMMERTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 849, 8 June 1888, Page 2

SALE OF THE MARINE TOWNSHIP OF PLIMMERTON.

• r 'Pi« of;.* sale -by public aactipn 'on . 'ibe- lands ... to ' be - offered is -» - feew JepiVtare in ' this quarter .«f the Colony," iud. Messrs T.; Kennedy Mao* donald arid' Co. ought,>6 be congratulated upon, tbb: complete success which attended the experiment. The Saturday morning train to Flimiherton took a large number of pasaeng*-ra. but.the special train in the af erJpooii swelled the: list to several hundreds, many professional and business men, as well aa'.aTJumber' of meir.'beri of Parliament, taking" tlie opportunity of' a beautiful afternoon to inspect a Very charming and picturesque spbt. After reading the conditions of sale—in one of which was a special clause prohibiting. the of-ariy building for the , carrying on of noi-ome And offensive businesses — providing, in fact; for- the sections being reserved.JfOr reßl lential purposes alone, Mr Macdonald addressed the largo gathering. He said he had been instructed by the Directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company tp offer only twenty sections at this sale. Some time next ram* er a further -portion of the property would be put upon the market, but in the meantime the land fronting the sea had been surveyed, and was how Open’ for sale. He called.the attention of his audience to the beauties of the landscape surrounding them ; the entrance to the baroor, with the breakers upon the bar, the Island of. Maca in the front, while in the distance the South Island towered through the haze, the entrance to the French Pass aiid Queen Charlotte Sound being, however, plainly discernible. Ho predicted a groat future for Plimmertou, alike as a fashionable watering place and as the departing point for a powerful steam ferry service across Cook Strait, connecting with the main Trunk Railway system of both Islands. ; In boiicliiding' his remarks, Mr Macdonald made a powerful appeal to his" audience to set their face against the parrot - cry of de-pression-—a cry which- - wan sapping th© foundations of all enterprise and bringing about the very thing it was intended to avoid. He urged ’ his audience always to remember that New Zealand was rich in everything that made.-men happy, and that all we wanted was faith iu ourselves and hope in-the future. Mr Macdonald’a observations were received With applause. Biddings fer the first lot were then invited. Considerable competition 'endued, and it ultimately fell to the nod of Mr John Plimiher, after whom the townsh ; p is named. This gentleman also took the second lot-at thejsamtj: prfee (2 Is per foot), and we Understand proposesutilising, the sections for the erection *of a family seaside hotel at ao early date.’ The bidding for th© other-sections was equally spiritedi so much so that the ; wholebfcthe Jot* were disposed of 'within half-an-hour. . We understand that the purchaser of the three sections in front of the present refreshment rooms is in negotiation s wifch the Railway Company for the purchase of the latter, in order to make iinmediate provi Bioti for tlie accommodation of the public. The following is a schedule of the purchasers and purchase money. It will be seen that the whale of the 20 sections containing in ail 4A acres, were sold at an average-price of- £242 per acre; a result which cannot but be satisfactory to the Railway Company. The return train reached the city at half-past 5 o'clock, the journey only occuping three-quarters of au hour. Schedule of Pitkchaseks and Pckchase Munev

No. of Frontage: p urchMep . Sec. (feet) Amount. £ a. d. 1 66 John Plimtner 69 6 0 *7 50 John Plimmer 52 10 0 3 50 J. M. Richardson 52 10 0 4 50 . J. M. Richardson 52 10 0 5 50 M. Kgan 57 10 0 6 54 J. B. Harcourt (as agent) 54 0 0 i 7 53 J. B. Harcourt («sagent) v 53 0 0 8 54 J. B. Harcourt54 0 0 (as agent) 9 56 J. H. O. Schwartz (as agent) : ' 70 0 0 10 ~ 50 J. H. O. Schwartz (as agent) 55 0 0 11 50 G. J. Richardson 52 10 0 12 13 50 K. K. Harman 52 10 0 ■ • 50 JosephTay’" . 52 TO 0 14 50 A. R. Guinness 52 10 0 15 10 50 A. R. Guinness 52 10 0 50 James Wallace - 52 10 0 17 r 50 ,Henry Blundell 52 10 0 .18 50 Henry Blundell' ' 52 10 0 19 50 C T. Richardson 50:0 0 20 50 O. T. Richardson 50 0 0 Total £1090 6 . 0,