​Letter to Office of the Custodian from Cornwall Kennedy & Colthurst about Kyusuke Oike

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Barristers and Solicitors Kennedy & Colthurst per "RW Kennedy" regarding dispossession of Kyusuke Oike's property.
Bank of Montreal Chambers
210 Victoria Street
Kamloops, British Columbia
​Office of the Custodian
Japanese Evacuation Section
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia.

File No. 8695
Copy for Mr. Shears Complaint File.

CORNWALL, KENNEDY & COLTHURST
Barristers and Solicitors

Bank of Montreal Chambers
210 Victoria Street
Kamloops, B.C.

Reply attention Mr. Kennedy

February 17th, 1947

Office of the Custodian
Japanese Evacuation Section
506 Royal Bank Building,
VANCOUVER, B.C.

Dear Sirs:

Re: Kyusuke Oike, Reg. No. 14094
Your file: 8695

We have been requested by the above-named to advise you that he has received your letter of the 29th ult. and to further advise you that he does not feel satisfied with the purchase price obtained for his property at Haney in connection with the sale held in 1944.

Mr. Oike feels that a fair price for the property in 1944 should have been considerably in excess of the amount for which you sold the property, in as much as he was offered $6000.00 at the time of the evacuation on a strictly forced sale basis and at a time when real estate values were considerably below those existing in 1944.

Yours very truly,

CORNWALL KENNEDY & COLTHURST
Per. "R.W. Kennedy"

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