HIGH COMMISSIONER
PURCHASE OF NEW OFFICES. NEW ZEALAND’S GOOD BARGAIN. (Press Association —-By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 7. Owing to the inadequacy of the accommodation in the present High Commissioner’s offices, Sir James Allen, under authority from the New Zealand Govern ment, proposes to sell the balance of the 99 years’ lease, with a view to purchasing from the British Medical Association the freehold and a block of offices at the corner of the Strand and Agar street, containing six storeys and five groundfloor show windows. It is reported that the purchase price is £160,000, which is much below- Sir James Allen’s independent valuation. Anglo-New Zealanders regard the acquisition enthusiastially, comparing it favourably as regards site and accommodation and cost, with the other dominions’ offices. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19759, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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