​Letter to Department of the Secretary of State from Gennosuke Suzuki

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten letter addressed to the government from Gennosuke Suzuki regarding the dispossession of their property.
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Kaslo, British Columbia
Recipient Address
​Office of the Custodian,
Department of the Secretary of State,
Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Kaslo, B.C.
April 26th, 1944.

Office of the Custodian,
Department of the Secretary of State,
Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, B.C.

Your file #7540 - Gennosuke Suzuki
J.L. NO.713

Dear Sirs:-

Re: 1041 River Road, R.R. 1, New Westminster, B.C. Lots 3, 4 and 7 of an 18.241 acre portion of Lot 440, Gp.2, Map 6759, District of New Westminster, C. of E. 50873. and Lot 68 of Lot 440, Group 2, Map 1133, District of New Westminster, C. of E. 50872.

I have just received your letter of the 13th instant in which, to my surprise, you advised me that the above properties were sold for $114.00 and that tax arrears to the end of 1942 for the amount of $14.54 plus registration fee of $6.00 were deducted from the above sale price leaving the net proceeds of sale of $93.46 in my credit.

I regret to advise that I have never given you my instruction or authority to sell the above properties, nor I had any intention of selling them at all, and it surprises me that you have sold them without consulting me and without my consent, at an unreasonably low price.

This is, therefore, to demand you to cancel the sale of the above properties, and also I request you not to make sale again without first obtaining my consent.

Yours truly,

(Signed) G. Suzuki.