AUCKLAND LAND PURCHASE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 442, 25 May 1937, Page 4

AUCKLAND LAND PURCHASE.

At a price believed to be about £9OO a foot the Bank of New South Wales is reported to have purchased a I property in Queen Street, Auckland, ■ next to the Auckland Savings Bank, j following its recent purchase of two i adjoining Queen Street properties, I as a site for the erection of a large | hank building. Its latest transaction • is further evidence of the intensiflcai tion of banking activities, says a j Press Association message. • ROYAL air force, ' As recently announced by the Mini ester of Defence, Hon. F. Jones, two j officers of the Royal New Zealand Air [Force, Squadron L<! der M. W. Bucki ley, commanding the New Zealand . Air Force base a’ Auckland, and Fly-. ; ng Officer H. W 1 Duffey, stationed at I Wigram Aerodrome, are to proceed [to England under a system of ex- ' change with Royal Air Force offiIcers. These two officers, who lire the | first to proceed to England under I this arrangement, will leave New Zealand for England on June 18.