​Letter from H Hayashi

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from H Hayashi regarding dispossession of their property.
Sender's Address
Box 195,
Geraldton, Ontario
Recipient Address
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Copy for Mr. Shears

Mrs. H. HAYASHI,
File No. 12409,
Reg. No. 02967,
Box 195,
Geraldton, Ontario.
May 24, 1947.

Dear Sir:

Received you letter date May 16 and very suprised to hear you have sold all my belongings on such a unreasonable amount sum of $15.00.

List of my belonging reported to Custodian when leaving Vancouver are as follows:


13

sets of bed and bedding complete

4

drawer

10

chair

2

kitchen cabinet

2

box kitchen utensils


toys, carpenter tools, trunk, books, stove, gas stove and etc.13 sets of bed and bedding complete

I am very unsatisfactory on amount of price sold. So please compare above list with your list and send me a copy of sold price on each article.

B. C. Electric Co., claim filed against me on sum of $4.33. I have a fund on gas meter amount to $24.00. So please collect what they owe me.

I remain,

Yours truly,

H. HAYASHI

Note: The premises in which these goods were sold were broken into repeatedly and what chattels remained after thefts were sold to Mr. Peter Hem for $15.00 by Mr. Messenger. There is no record of what was sold to Mr. Hem.