Unaddressed letter from Manzo Araki

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of an unaddressed letter from Manzo Araki regarding dispossession of their property.
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Box 14,
Westbank, British Columbia
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COPY FOR MR. SHEARS

Cheque returned for redeposit. Manzo Araki, Reg. No. 09317, File 5417

Box 14,
Westbank, B.C.
May 22nd, 1947.

Dear Sir:

I have received this cheque of $25.00 for my house, but I won't accept it. It sure is quite a price for a house isn't it? I am a return soldier & I sure get treated well after fighting for this country, don't I? As for the house I'll put the price on myself.

Thank you,

Yours truly,

"MANZO ARAKI"

(The cheque represented the sum received from Canadian Collieres (Dunsmuir) Limited as salvage value of a house build on the company's land. Right to occupy and use terminated when occupier ceased to be an employee of the company)