LAND FOR THE RETRENCHED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 8

LAND FOR THE RETRENCHED.

FIVE HUNDRED APPLICANTS.FOR 102 ! ..: SECTIONS,. ■ Applications for the 102 sections, situated in the Hunia and Kaitieke Survey Districts, between. Raurimu; and Kakahi; oh the . Main Trunk line, closed yesterday; These sections iave been set' aside .for settlement ■ by the jovernment for .retrenched Civil Servants and ix-raijwar. workers; in', the hope that they will provide work and good' homes, for those ■■ that nay not be ,60 well providod for at present, md at the'same time will open'up a desirable :raot of country, -in . close proximity. to the tfain Trunk line.' The land generally is.hilly md undulating, with light bush (which is iaf«-guarded by regulations), and when oleared md grassed should ho very fair dairying conn;ry- ■At one-time' it was imagined that there vould be some hesitation'on: the part : of exmblip soryantsto go "on tho land," but,, on nijinry yesterday at tho Lands /Office, our .reiresentativewas informed that there wero:over TO .applications for the 102, subdivisions(whioh ' an J?°„ ■. "om-' 100. acres, near,.the railway-line, o 200 acres'at the back of tho block). This rill necessitate a good deal of sifting'out—a irocess winch will not give the Land Board a treat denlof trouble; ns the conditions under i-hich the land is -being offered for selection '<"", " 10 . commissioner, strong powers to deal nth applicants. Married men are to be given >reference over, single men, and recantly rercnehed Civil Sor.yants aro tobe given first !all on tho sections.' The ballot for tho. seotlbns is to takVplace in Friday, October 29. '•.'•: ■, -..-..