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STATE PROPERTY REGISTER

Sir, —The •'Government, bn behalf of returned servicemen in search of homes, proposes to open up through the State Advances Department a property register, ’where any person who has a property in the shape of a house or farm to dispose of to returned men is invited to have it recorded for sale, and where, one presumes, the change-over from seller to buyer will be executed at a minimum of cost. This is obviously a very praiseworthy and overdue step in the right direction and may well, in the general interests of the country, be widened in scope to include all land and property exchange transactions for civilians also. The whole of the .business of contacting the buyer and seller and work connected therewith could be carried out in a city the size of Invercargill by one or two returned servicemen, and this branch of the department, receiving a very moderate fee, perhaps a matter of shillings, for each transaction, would be found to give excellent results. The above property register, where instituted, in addition to creating a substantial saving in unnecessary cost to the principals in a property exchange, would also considerably contribute to the saving of petrol and over’ aping, towards which ends the mayor and a councillor have recently been appointed to assist the Invercargill zoning committee. Furthermore, it would have the effect to a large extent of liberating the present personnel of land agency for war work. , OBSERVER.

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Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 5

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STATE PROPERTY REGISTER Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 5

STATE PROPERTY REGISTER Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 5

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