DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

CITY BLOCK, isui/l). illy Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 10. What is considered to he a record price for property in Svmonds Street, £17,000, .has teen paid for a two-storey brick block at the corner of Svmonds Street and Hoepere Lane, the buyer being Mr George Tutt, of Svmonds Street. The only price'in excess of this figure realised for Svmonds Street property was paid some time ago for hotel premises at the corner, but the figure paid on that occasion was not regarded as a true indication of the value of land in the vicinity, as it included the hotel license,. Tiie frontage is 38ft, giving a value of C-M7 7s (jd a. foot, which includes the building. The depth is 90ft. The structure, which comprises two shops with premises above, is twenty years old, but is of very .solid construction, tiie exterior walls being in goo'd order, although the interior requires renovation. .Mr Tutt intends to remodel the building and to transfer his mercery and tailor’s business to the new .site. The high price realised for property is taken as an indication of confidence by a business man who has been established in Svmonds Street for thirty-eight years, in the commercial possibility's of this part of the city.

KILLED BUS! I FALLING. WHANG \IM-,r. Dec. IS. Hugh Christie, aged 58. married, a man with a family, was killed yesterday while euxhfniling at Mangawahine. He was last seen a I 3 p.m. yesterday by a fellow worker. When he did not return in the evening a search part;, was organised and found Christie dead with a tree across his body. TRAIN II ITS TAXI. BLENHEIM, Doc. IS. A taxi, driven by William Parlitf coliiiled yesterday with a train at Uroudway cros.-ing. l’icinii, where fatality remit I v occurred. The car was smashed, but the driver escaped miraculously. Five trucks wore dura, iled. damaging the permanent way.