P Douet to Mr. Ikutaro Konishi, 18 January 1945

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January 18th, 1945.

Mr. Ikutaro Konishi,

Reg. No. 05106,

P. O. Box 133, Grand Forks, B. C. Dear Sir:

Re: Sale of property - 125 Garry Street, Steveston to Director, Veterans' Land Act.

We are in receipt of your letter of January 15th respecting the sale of the above property about which you were advised in the early part of last year. Your remarks have been carefully read and we can appreciate that the disposal of your property will be a matter of personal concern. However, the sale of properties to the Director, The Veterans' Land Act was carried out as a part of the policy of liquidation outlined by Ottawa on the basis of appraised valuations.

Your letter has been placed upon our files so that your comments in regard to this sale will remain on record but we can only advise you that we are unable to consider any alternative in regard to this matter.

We note that you wish to have funds standing to your credit from this sale forwarded to you and in reply to your query for a statement would advise that there is no change at all in your account from that shown on our statement of April 19th, 1944, from which you will see that your credit balance is $2551.41.

At your request a cheque for $2500.00 is enclosed, which leaves you with a credit balance of $51.41 and we would explain that the need for retaining this small amount is to take care of legal fees in connection with the sale of the property and which figure has not yet been determined. This point was mentioned in the last paragraph of our statement above-mentioned.

Yours truly,

P Douet,

Administration Department

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P Douet to Mr. Ikutaro Konishi, 18 January 1945

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Source: Library and Archives Canada, Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property Fonds, C-1 Office Files

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