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LAND SALES COMMITTEE Criticism has often been expressed of the delay that is said to arise through the sale of land and house properties through the machinery of land sales committees. However, there was a notable exception at a sitting of the South Auckland Land Sales Committee in Hamilton today when the sale of a house property at the Government valuation of £IO2O was agreed to by the committee. The agreement to purchase was signed by the vendor and purchaser only yesterday, so that scarcely a day had elapsed before the consent of the committee to the sale was obtained. The despatch with which the committee had handled the case without the usual preliminaries was a tribute to it, said Mr E. J. S’Mart, who represented the vendor a*ntf purchaser. The case, he said, must be a record for the committee. “ We have been getting some bad knocks lately, so this is quite a change,” said the Crown representative, Mr W. Row**
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22393, 6 July 1944, Page 4
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