Mrs. H Hayashi to Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property , 24 May 1947
Copy for Mr. Shears
Dear Sir:
Received you letter date May 16 and very suprised to hear you have sold all my belongings on such a unreasonable
amount sum of $15.00.
List of my belonging reported to Custodian when leaving Vancouver are as follows:
13 sets of bed and bedding complete
4 drawer
10 chair
2 kitchen cabinet
2 box kitchen utensils
toys, carpenter tools, trunk, books, stove, gas stove and etc.
I am very unsatisfactory on amount of price sold. So please compare above list with
your list and send me a copy of sold price on each article.
B. C. Electric Co., claim filed against me on sum of $4.33. I have a fund on gas meter amount to $24.00. So please collect what they owe me.
I remain,
Yours truly,
Note: The premises in which these goods were sold were broken into repeatedly and
what chattels remained after thefts were sold to Mr. Peter Hem for $15.00 by Mr. Messenger. There is no record of what was sold to Mr. Hem.
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Mrs. H Hayashi to
Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property
, 24 May 1947
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