AUCTION SALE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9677, 29 December 1909, Page 5

AUCTION SALE.

OLD MASI'ERTON HOSPITAL SITE AND BUILDINGS.

An important auction sale of a valuable site and buildings is announced to take place on Saturday, January Bth, at 2 p.m., when Messrs W. B. Chennells and C 6., acting under instructions from the mortgagee, will offer by public auction at j their rooms, Perry street, the old ( Maaterton Hospital site, together with the buildings. The "matron's cottage" is practically a new Btructture and could, with a small expenditure, be converted into a handsome and modern residence. . The hospital building itself is constructed of heart of totara, and could easily be removed, in sections «md turned to profitable account. In addition to these there are outbuildings, windmill and tanks, all pi which are in £OQd. order, Tbfi J?eautiful ground.3 are the result of years of labour, ( and the expenditure of a great deal ' of money tui the part o£ the' Hospital Trustees. This is to be seen in. the way the grounds have been laid out, and planted with specially selected trees and shrubs, which £:*"would be an ornament to any modern ** home. The property is splendidly adapted for residential purposes, fronting as it does two streets, while the upper portion conjists. of a beautiful terrace sloping gently down to the banks of a never-failing stream of water. The sale of the property presents an opportunity to investors which ia well worth careful investigation. Full particulars can be obtained from the auctioneers.