SALE OF RAILWAY LANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 6

SALE OF RAILWAY LANDS.

There was a large attendance yesterlilay afternoon at ill'. Newton King's 'auction mart, when the linihvay Departmeat made an effort to dispossess itself of surplus tuwsi and suburban property, being the abandoned railway route and properties acquired in connection ihcrowith, ami the sections recently (nuchased to provide the Slew railway line, liidding was slow, and most of th c lots were passed, many of them without even an enquiry as to the upset. Very few loth changed liandri. The Devon street frontages in the town centre were unsold. The reserve on lot 3, between Mr. Newton King's and '.Mr. F. \V. Hall's pharmacy, carried an upset 01 some £3BOO, and for one of tile lots on the other side of the street .C2IKi;S "was asked. Lot 3, portion of the old rail-1 way route behind thc premises occupied by Messrs R. and F. Aroa, was knocked down to Mr. W. H. Skinner, owner of (he adjoining property. Mr. J. U. Parker secured the 10-inch frontage next his freehold (.Mr. W. 11. (jreiner's jewellery establishment) for £BO. Mr. Ken. Webster bought an irregularly-shaped section (8.4 perches) near the Vivian street bridge over the Huatoki stream for £SO. The New Plymouth Borough Council purchased for street purposes : lot 14, having frontage to Leach, L'uudet and Lemon streets, the former sit;' of the stationmaster's liousc. The price was £SOO. The Council also bought lot 18, an irregular piece of ground on the west side of Cover street at its junction with Leach street, lor £4O. Mr. \V. Howiey bought lot- 10, On the side of Hover st. for £76. Mrs H. Stanley became the purchaser of lot l!lb, part of section 1841, in Molmworth street, with a fourroomvd cottage thereon, at £250, and Mr. tleo. Knight bought a quarter-acre section on thc seaward side of the railway, near the mouth of the llenui, for £73. Altogether, about seventy lots were offered.

At th € conclusion of the sale Mr. Shaw put up several parcels of property adjoining the railway lands, but not a bid was forthcoming.