Unsold Sections in 1874.

By June, 1874, there were still a number of the town sections unsold, and the late Mr W. Deane Lysnar (father of Mr Lysnar, M.P.), records in his diary that he obtained from Mr Graham the following particulars—

Section 29, Rangi Road, 39p upset value £34.

Section 30, corner of Lowe Street and Rangi Road 30p, £34.

Section 29, Rangi Road, 39p upset value £34.

Section 30, corner of Lowe Street and Rangi Road, 30p., £34.

Section 31, adjoining, 29p., £20.

Section 61, Peel Street, just below Police Station, 1r., £20.

Section 62, adjoining, 1r., £20.

Section 63, lower down, 1r 11p., £10.

Section 64, two sections below Opera House in Peel Street. 1r 20p., £25.

Section 65, next Opera House, 1r., £23.

Section 66, Opera House site. 1r., £23.

Section 67, corner of Peel Street and Childers Road, opposite Opera House, 1r., £28.

Section 68, section nearer Gladstone Road, 1r., £25.

Section 69, Power Board site, 1r., £22.

Section 70, Sheridan and Adair's, 1r., £30.

Section 71, Townley's Corner, £29.

Other sections on the list run from Townley's corner round Gladstone Road and half way down Bright Street, but the upset prices are not given.