SALE OF PROPERTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 6

SALE OF PROPERTY

OBJECTION BY CROWN

UNDUE AGGREGATION SUGGESTED

An objection by the Crown to the transfer of a city property on the grounds of alleged undue aggregation on the part of the purchaser was heard by the Otago Land Sales Committee— Messrs E. J. Anderson (chairman), D. J. Ross, and R. Walls —yesterday, when George Paul (Mr M. M. Caudwell) sought permission to sell to Evelyn Isobel Scully (Mr J. T. Walter) a dwelling situated on section IA, block 66, City of Dunedin, for a consideration of £650.

The purchaser, in evidence, said she owned a small farm in South Otago, and also two house properties in Dunedin, one of which she occupied. It was her intention to give the properly in question to her daughter, who was about to marry a serviceman, who had recently returned from the Middle East.

Mr W. L. Miller, for the Crown, said that there was a considerable demand by working families for properties of the type involved in the application, and it was the Crown’s view that aggregation became undue when persons who already had sufficient property for their own purposes acquired further property, thereby depriving others of the opportunity of owning their own homes. The purchaser could provide a home for her daughter by financing a purchase, rather than acquiring a property in her own name. In reply to a question by the chairman. Mr Miller submitted that the Land Sales Act, as it affected returned servicemen, applied to rural properties and not to city residences, in the acquisition of which servicemen were not entitled to any particular preference.

The committee reserved its decision, Applications Granted

The following application, in which the consideration involved was £IOOO or over, were granted Estate of S. Solomon and Clara Adelaide Solomon to the Dominion Packing Company, Ltd., part lot 9, City of Dunedin; selling price, £3OOO. William King to Gerald Charles Ronga Green, allotments 89 and 91, township of Calton extension; selling price £I3OO. Christina Lydia Oaten to James Ewart, lot 7, town of Oamaru; selling price, £1725 (reduced to £1650 by consent). ~T , Richard Eric Salter to William Woodward Small, lot 1, Upper Harbour East district; seliing price, £1650 (reduced to £1465 by consent). John Comrie Campbell .Shanks to Anthony John Dowling, section 1, block 10, Kurow; selling price £I3OO (the order to issue in the name of the Collins Transport Company, Ltd., as -he purchaser. _ , Ruby Althea Smith to John William Williams, allotment 5, city of Dunedin; selling price £llOO. . Frances Elizabeth Forth to Mark Davis sections 1 and 2, block 38, town of Wanaka; selling price £I2OO. George William Carrington to Frank Stmuel Salinger, allotment 47, township of Dunottar; selling price £2350. Charles John Webb to Noel Milligan Samson part allotments 25, 28, and 31, township of Dalkieith; selling price £1175 (reduced to £llOO by consent). Cecil Doyle Gunn and Amy Victoria Gunn to Thomas Gordon, allotment 1, Dunedin district; selling price £3500 (reduced to £3175 by consent; land and buildings £3075, chattels Allen Arthur Arton to Grace Burnet Gallaway, lots 5 and 6, part sections 48, 49, and 50, block 4, Dunedin; selling price £ISOO. Donald Sinclair Andrew to Lindsay May and John Ronald May, part section 1182 R block 2, Pomahaka district, and part lot 22, Clydevale estate; selling price £1250. Raymond Clementson to Mary Henderson Purser, section 70, block 32, city of Dunedin; selling price £1750. Frank Noel Massetti to Jessie Frances Macdonald and Frances Hannah Boyland, part allotments 4 and 5, township of Newmarket; selling price £1575. Charles Henry Fortune to Christina Henderson McMullan Double, allotment 12, township of St. Kilda; selling price £1550 (reduced to £1525 by consent). Bertrand Stanilaus Connor to John Alexander Lloyd Carter, allotment 33, and part allotment 32, block 2, township of St. John’s Wood; selling price £ISOO. Robert Alexander George WilsonPyne to John William James Curie, allotment 7, city of Dunedin; selling price £1550 (reduced to £1450 by consent).

William Kelly to William Kelly the younger, lot 3, Greenvale survey district; selling price £4981 17s 6d (reduced to £3557 Os 4d by consent, the application being granted subject to the production of the order of the Southland Land Sales Committee approving of the transfer of the land in its jurisdiction at £1092 14s 8d). ' William Barton Fairlie to John Leslie Martin and Flora Olive Martin, allotment 2, township of Woodhaugh; selling price £llsO (reduced to £IOOO by consent).