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            <title type="generated">Masajiro Nishida to 
                  
                     Dept.
                     Department
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                  Office of the Custodian,
               Japanese Evacuation Section, 09 December 1946</title>
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         <note>Copy for <persName corresp="prs:shea1">Mr. F G Shears</persName>.</note>
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                        <num>506</num> Royal Bank <choice>
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            <salute>Dear Sirs:-</salute>
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            <p>I am writing this in protest of the property sale made by the Office of the Custodian in <date when="1943-01">January, 1943</date>.</p>
            <p>Firstly, the sale was made without my knowledge or <choice><sic>concent</sic><corr>consent</corr></choice> and secondly, the sale prices of the two lands: one at <location type="subjectProperty">
                  <placeName type="legalDescription">Lot 21 of part of Section 2 Block 3 North Range 7 West Map 963 New Westminster District, Municipality of <settlement>Richmond</settlement></placeName>
               </location> and the other, <location type="subjectProperty">
                  <placeName type="legalDescription">East one-half of Lot 17 and part (1.45 acres more or less) of Lot 16 of Section 2 Block 3 North Range 7 West Map 963 said part of Lot 16 as shown and outlined in red color on sketch deposited 7229, <settlement>District of New Westminster</settlement>,</placeName>
               </location>, are outrageously low in accordance with my estimation, considering the many improvements I have made since the purchase of the above described lands.</p>
            <p>The two lands were purchased at <num type="originalValue">$4400.00</num> and the buildings themselve were worth at the time of the evacuation <num type="jcEstimate">$3760.00</num>. According to the report on the property sales from your office, we have been informed that the sale prices of the two lands were <num type="salePrice">$2455.00</num>. This amount will not even cover the original cost price of the lands alone.</p>
            <p>Finally, I wish to inform you that I am now able to obtain sufficient means to keep myself and my family without the monthly remittance you have been sending me. I would prefer you keep my account intact from this day on until further notice.</p>
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            <salute>Yours truly,</salute>
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