LAND HUNGER.
EXTRAORDINARY DEMAND. (BY TKIEGUArri—I'IiSSS; ASSOCIATION;)
Auckland, January 26. Applications closed at the Auckland Crown Lands. Office yesterday.: aftarwion for' lease, tinder the, optional systerii of seven sections in t!io Mangakfthia Sutvey District (North Auckland), these applications totalling in the'nggr6fhite.no loss'than 905..'.The extraordinary/demand ■•which exists for land of this class in the north .will he evident when it is. stated that the nnmber of applicants for:, own of the . sections (3 of Block IX) tcaclied. tHc. surprising total of 270. whilst, secnons 2 and '4 of.: the same block have attrSctod 58 and 236 respectively. Section Ba of . Block X has 176 comoetitors, ..aiid section 9of the same block 149. The number 276. i<i no mohns a record one;, a notible instance having occurred 0f.700- nt.Totatoka, but it'-is bolieved that the former total ranks sccorid so far as Auckland is concfirhcd.:
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 9
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142LAND HUNGER. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 9
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