ORIENTAL HOTEL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26410, 14 March 1947, Page 11

ORIENTAL HOTEL

TRANSFER ..NOT CONTESTED CASES BEFORE COMMITTEE The Oriental Hotel, Dunedin, again figured in an application before the Otago Land Sales Committee—Messrs C. B. Barrowclough (chairman), D J. Ross and E. Sincock—at its sitting yesterday, when Robert Buchanan asked consent to the sale to Ronald Theodore Gay at a figure of £23,500. The applicant was "represented by Mf H. S. Ross and the .Crown by Mr J. R. Hampton. The case was not contested, the committee reducing the price to £23,150, against a figure of £23,050, which was agreed to when the previous transfer was granted in May of last year, the applicant submitting a statement that improvements amounting to £IOO had been carried out by him since his occupancy. Question of Goodwill Joseph Raymond Williams sought permission to transfer a mixed business and allotment 5, block 2, township of St. John’s Wood, at a price of £1220 for land and buildings, £l5O for chattels, and £IOOO for goodwill, to Richard Francis Purvis and Henry Purvis It was explained by Mr R. L. Fairmaid, who appeared in support of the application, that the only question in dispute was the amount claimed for goodwill. The case was adjourned in order to allow the applicant an opportunity of submitting evidence concerning management expenses. Applications Approved The following applications relating to properties of £IOOO and over were approved ; . Lionel Counsell Stephens to Rose Susan McGregor Wardell, part section 14, block 11, Dunedin; purchase price £IOOO. Lilian Gwendoline McKinlay to Bessie Gladys Anderson, allotment 14 and 15, Clutha district; purchase price. £ll7O (reduced to £IOOO by consent). James Prise and Jean Young Prise to Robert Alexander Drummond and Hazel Jean Drummond, part section 21, block 2, North Harbour and Blueskin district; purchase price £2OOO. „ , Roy Didney McCormick Harrow to Edward John Ernest Tompkins, part allotment 295, Glen Estate, purchase price £1350 (reduced to £llOO by consent). Sections Ltd., to Acetone Illuminating and Welding Co., Ltd., lots 14, 15, 16 and 21. township of Glenfoot; purchase price £ 1500. John William Moodie, to George Co wen Laidlaw, section 5. Windle SetOernent, purchase price £1932 (land and buildings £1585, chattels £347). Charles Edwin Barker to Reginald Campbell Crossan, part sections 2,3, ana 4, block 1. Clutha district; purchase price £4OOO Reginald Campbell fcrossan to Alexan* der Thomas Thomson, section 7, and part sections 5,6, and 8, block }' s ln £* cli }Vp district: purchase price £4325 14s (reduced to £4145 by consent).