​Letter to The Custodian's Office from Sakae Takenaka

Hulton P.O. [post office]
St. Vital, Man. [Manitoba]

(Received May 12, 1944)

The Custodian's Office,
Royal Bank Bldg.,
Vancouver, B. C.

Dear Sir:

According to your notice about our property on Gibson Rd. it was sold for the unbelievably low price of $1020. When we first bought the farm for $1800.00, the only building on the place was the present living house and an old chicken house which has since been demolished. Every chicken house on the place was built by us and in 1941 we built two new chicken houses. One which is 40 x 20 ft. was built at a cost of $160.00 and the other 100 x 20 ft. at a cost of over $600.00, both with flooring two inches thick instead of the usual one inch. I wish you will give this matter some consideration as according to a real estate valuator the property was worth over $5,000.00 the year of the evacuation. We have suffered enough injustices and for a country that has boasted of its democratic principles I think this sale was very unfair and sold at a give away price as any chicken farmer would be able to make two or three thousand dollars a year.

I would also like to have the two double beds with springs sent out and will you advise us when the brooders, incubators, feeders, rolls of wire netting etc., are disposed of.

Yours truly,

"Sakae Takenaka"
(Mrs. R. Takenaka)