SALE OF PROPERTIES
No Bids Forthcoming "Already Hastings has developed into one of the principal 'inland town®' in New Zealand. It will continue to develop until in about 40 Or 50 years it will be the biggest inland city in the Dominion, It is in a wonderfnlly productiv-e district, and anyone investmg in property now wilx have a valuable asset in years to come. Now is the time for yott young people of Hastings .to purchase somb "property, and when you are 50 years of age you will have an lnvestment worth thousands. ' 1 These words were used by an auctioneer this morping when he sought to dispose of a number of hduses and ftresidential sitcs in Hastings on behalf of the trutees of the Edward Newbigin Estatei Though there were about 20 people present, the exhorta tions of the auctioneer failed to move his hearers, and the only bid was one for £50 for a half-aere section "for the salio of a start." The properties offered cpnsisted of a iAvo-storicd residence in St. Aubyn sireet, a jeven-roomed house at the corner of Ellison road and Hastings street, with two sections available, an eiglit-roomed house in Southland road and nearly two acres adjacent.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 4
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