REAL ESTATE SALES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 6, 3 May 1939, Page 5

REAL ESTATE SALES

'MANY PROPERTIES CHANGE

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There is plenty of movement in -the house and section market,, arui -there is also a good demand for small farms, this last no doubt due to tin; . desire of many dairymen to get pro. perties which they can operate them selves without the employment of ..costly labour. The sale of big farms will be difficult this winter. House sales effected this month by . one Whakatane land agent include properties owned by the estate of the late Mrs Wilson, Miss E. F. Hutton, and Messrs Miles Hamill, H. A. Moffitt, Allan Donaldson and S. E. Funnell. Four sections have also been solcl on Hillcrest and six sections in parts of Whakatane. RAT WEEK ABANDONED U In view of the many inmportnnt matters demanding the attention of the public, the Auckland City Council has decided that the campaign for the destruction of rats, arranged to be held in the third week of May, is to be abandoned. Advice to this effect was received from the Auckland City Council by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. It was stai. ■Ed tha.t owing to. the gravity of international affairs, the consequent t -.disturbance of the public mind, tlv.- * public appeal shortly to lie made in connection with recruitment, a ; r | raid precautions organisation arid, other matters of outstanding importance, the council had deemed it inadvisable to superimpose on the is. / -sues now before the public the activities of the proposed rat "week.