Land Ballot

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 7 October 1907, Page 6

Land Ballot

hukanuPand n ire aha SETTLEMENTS. i Z (&om-Our, o\vn Correspondent.) ■ - ■' Eketahuna, October 5. ■ There l woro 'UH- applications l for 11 sections'■Ht' lTuliamii and Nireaha village settlements; which were offered by ballot, to'-dayi'-under-l.i.p. tenure. The ballot ,was conducted by tho Commis-sioner-/,of Crown Lanasl The area of wptibns'.'i'iii;, jtfce'- Hukanui block ranged from 2o -to 37 acres, at an annual rental >.- per acre of lis. -id. to ;25.:iM../ ; ;; Sections' in this .block went as follow: No. 49, 37 acres',Vl\ O'Kccfo. Palmerston North (27. applicants); ,No. 50, 37 acres, J. T. Smith, Hukanui (29 applicants); No.''s2,\'2o'acres, Peter Lawson, Mamganiaire (20 applicants); No. 53, 26, acTOs ( .'Daniel:-Myers, Paimerston North ; (2G'applicants); No. 51, 20' acres, * William -.Myers,-.': Newtown (26 applicants). . ;' • . ' 37, 4!) acres, ' anniial-.jrent ..j/sJilSili'- P. L; Wildbore.i ' Peildin;; • (146' applicants); No. 38, 49 acres, hrmukl rent Bs., F. E. Pctherick, Wellington.(lls applicants); No. 3!), 50 , acres, rent'its' 2c1.,'0. Johnston, Wel- : lington,(l4B applicants); No. 40,50 acres, rent Bs.',> •P. .11. • Dowdson, Nireaha l : (129,. :applicants); /No. 11, . 48 acres, rentes. Sd.y P. Quinlan\ Mangatainoka , (IM.', "'applicants).; ..No. 12, 14 acres, rent'7s.' 7d.;' Fulton, Nireaha ; (132:; >- applicants);-.; No.- to, 52 acres,'" rent !)s.- 2d'.;',C. B. Wildbore, Pohangina (128 applicants); No. Gl, 51 acres,.rent, Bs., William M'Donald, Nireaha (125 applicants); No. G2, 51 acres; ; rent, Ss., .I...Loi?rove, Nireaha (123 ap- ■ plicants); No. G5, 49 acres, rent, 9s. 2d., P. CNeill,-. rNewtown (120. applicants). None of 'the 11, town acre sections at !• Nireaha settlcmcn- - offered by auction wor.o'.bid.for... Xt\".