​Letter to Chojuro Furutani from WE Anderson

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten reply letter to Chojuro Furutani from government representative WE Anderson regarding dispossession of their property.
Recipient Address
​Lorette, Manitoba
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4939

October 13, 1944.

Mr. Chojuro FURUTANI,
Registration No. 12627
Lorette, Manitoba

Dear Sir:

We are in receipt of your letter of October 2, 1944.

Your remarks have been carefully read and we can appreciate that the disposal of your property is a matter which will give you personal concern. However, the sale of properties to the Director, The Veterans' Land Act, was carried out as a part of a policy of liquidation outlined by the Canadian Government and the prices obtained were on the basis of appraised valuations.

Your letters have 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 the sale has been completed and that we are not in a position to consider any alternative in regard to this matter.

The following is a statement of your account prior to that shown on the back of your property sale statement, breaking down the balance of $62.09 brought forward to January 1, 1943:

 

Credit

 

 

Rents, 4 months including Sept. 1942

$80.00

 

Less pay't made to Mrs. Yagi

25.00

$55.00

Payment on Stove

 

8.00

October rent

 

20.00

November rent

 

15.00

December rent

 

15.00

Debit

 

 

Remittance to you Sept. 19, 1942

$30.00

 

1942 Taxes

21.91

 

Credit Balance Carried F'wd to Statement

62.09

 

 

$113.00

$113.00

 


We trust you will find this satisfactory.

Yours truly,

W. E. Anderson,
Farm Department

WEA/EG