​Letter to the Department of the Secretary of State from Toyoshi Hiramatsu

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Toyoshi Hiramatsu regarding dispossession of their property. Includes handwritten annotation in top margin.
c/o Simon Ronacher,
Athalmer, British Columbia
​Department of Secretary of State,
Office of Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Hastings & Granville Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia

F. G. Shears
Complaint File [handwritten]

C O P Y

c/o [care of] Simon Ronacher,
Athalmer, B.C.
June 15, 1946.

Dept. of Secretary of State,
Office of Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Bldg.,
Hastings & Granville St.,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:

I acknowledge receipt of cheque of $186.05 and account of sale of my land but am very aggrieved at my real estate sold at such a very low price without the consent of myself.

I know and am sure that the minimum price value of my land at present is over $1000.00. To prove that the value of my land was $700.00 I am sending you couple of tax receipt which I am sure will make clear to you the value of my land at that time and I have paid my tax accordingly since 1938, the year I bought that land. At that time the value of land was low but at present I am sure the value is over $1000.00.

I don't know if the Custodian of Enemy property has the right to sell my land without my consent, but I think the Custodian has not the right to sell my land at such a low price so I would like to know why it was sold at such an unfair dealing? I would like you to kindly check up on the value of my land at present and give me an reply and until I can fully understand why it was sold at such a low unfair price, I cannot send my title for land.

Yours truly,

"T. Hiramatsu"

File No. 4620