LAND SALE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4322, 3 April 1901, Page 7

LAND SALE

A Bale of city ami suburban properties took placo at Messrs ft. Bethune and Co.'s auction mart yesterday after noon. Three separate properties were offered and sold at satisfactory prices. By instructions from the executors iu the estate of the late Mrs F. F. Fitz Gerald, the lirm sold a freehold building site, part of section No. 38«, Wellington, having a frontage of .20 feet to Clyde quay, hy -a depth of 132 ft. The bidding for this section started at £5 per foot, and rapidly rose by bids of XI per foot to X-l per foot, at which figure Mr Paul Coffey became the purchaser. The priee obtained for the section (£480) is n.-record one, and is far in excess of any former prices given in the same locality most of the land in this vicinity having been sold at or under- ,4110 per foot, " Afterwards the firm submitted a 'freehold building site, part of section, tiff) Wellington, having a frontage of 39ft' to Oriental terrace, by a depth of lOOtt. which was purchased l.v Mr .). T. Hawthorn; as agent, at ,£IOO. Mill, W. Giesen's freehold property, containing 3r 20p, being let No. 11 i on plan of the township of Creswkk. Kavori. 'together with his villa residence of live rooms thereon, was solil atf.i'sso, the name of the purchaser being withheld by reunc-st. The total amount realised fur the three properties was £l-130.