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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1775, 14 March 1906, Page 12

Mr David Zander has completed the purchase, through Mr H. E. Leighton, of Messrs H. C. Gibbons and Co.’s nursery at the Hutt, consisting of twentysix acres, with buildings. Messrs Gibbons and 00. found, as other agriculturists have found, that the price of land in the Hutt is too high for nursery purposes, and the new owner wi’l probably cut up the property for building. Messrs Gibbons and Co. are already establishing new nurseries, ana they will have a long period in which to dispose of and move the balance or their The Hon. T. Kennedy Macdonald, M.L.C., has strong views as to tue urn r em l-.te Mayor (Mr Aitken) in connloUon 1 with the matter, ami pointed * +w +he present Mayor (the Hon. Mi Htelop), Mr Palmer, the Town Clerk and Mr Morton, the City (Engineer-, were not responsible in the least degree, they not being in office when the work was initiated and carried into effect. He stated that the weakness and incapacity connected witik the taking of the lands had cost the city many thousands of pounds.