​Letter to Flora Matheson from Y Takemoto

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Y Takemoto regarding dispossession of their property.
Sender's Address
Box 581,
Greenwood, British Columbia
Recipient Address
​Office of the Custodian,
Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Copy for Mr. Shears

COMPLAINT

Files No. 6689
4009

Box 581,
Greenwood, B.C.
November 27, 1946.

Mr. F. Matheson,
Office of the Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Bldg
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:

I am in receipt of your letter of November 5 and also a cheque for Three hundred twenty-five dollars and fifty cents ($325.56).

Although I have accepted this cheque, I do so with many complaints. For one the amount for the cheque is only a small fraction of what the chattels are really worth. Years of hard labour were put in to get the chattels worth over three thousand dollars. I trusted these fixtures to you, that you would take care of them until this matter was cleared up. If I did ask you to sell my personal property, I would gladly accept the cheque but since this is not the case I am not doing so.

The cheque remains uncashed until you inform me what you are going to do about this matter. Your immediate answer to this letter will be greatly appreciated.

I am enclosing two receipts which I received when I surrendered two radios to the R.C.M.P. [Royal Canadian Mounted Police]. Please send the money to me. But please note that this cheque is not the real value of the radios.

I am definitely not accepting them as full payment for the chattels and radios.

Yours very truly,

(Mrs.) Y. Takemoto
Per S.T.