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                  Yukio Yamada to Department of Secretary of State, Office of the Custodian, 13 August 1944</title>
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               <date when="1944-08-13">Aug. 13, 1944</date>.</dateline>
           <note> File No. <idno type="propertyId">5005</idno>.</note>
            <note>Department of Secretary of State,</note> <note><orgName ref="org:cust3">Office of the Custodian</orgName>.</note>
            <salute>Dear Sir:</salute>
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            <p>Referring to your letter of <date when="1944-04-14">April 14, 1944</date>, J.L. No. <idno>456</idno>, File No. 5005, stating that you have sold my property at <location type="subjectProperty">
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                        <num>2291</num> Advent Road</street>, <settlement>Pitt Meadows</settlement>, <region>B. C.</region>
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            <p>It has being quite some time since I received your letter, but just the same, I am writing you this protest.</p>
            <p>I have written you before when you advised me if I wanted to sell my place last year. I have written you back and told you diffident that I had no intention of selling at anytime.</p>
            <p>When we were evacuated from the prohibited area I handed my property to the Custodian, in trust, that they would hold it for safe keeping until we were able to return to our homes again after the war.</p>
            <p>But instead of keeping you trust the Custodian have sold my property for measly <num type="salePrice" value="410">four hundred and ten dollars</num>, which is far less than the actual value of my property and further more selling the same without the consent of the owner. I think the Custodian is unworthy of the trust which was left in your hands. What do the Custodian think we are?</p>
            <p>I think that selling my property is unjust and digression of Canadian fair play, which you have talked so much of.</p>
            <p>I am saying again that I don't want my property sold for such a price. In fact I don't considered it sold. I'm a Canadian and wish to be treat as same not like an enemy alien.</p>
            <p>Further more I would like to know what become of the thing I left behind at house when we left the coast?</p>
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