NEW CROWN SETTLEMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 8

NEW CROWN SETTLEMENTS.

..■■■: . >- TARA & LANSDOWN. (Br Telegraph.—Press Association,) Timaru, March 12. A good, deal of interest was taken in the ballot at Waimate to-day for two Crown settlements, Tara 3623 acres of second-class land in eight sections, and Lansdown, 2070 acres of first-class land in nine sections. For Tara, there were 8 applicants, sixty going in for one lot, and for Lansdown 76. Most of the sections" fell to South Canterbury and Oamaru people. One Leeston resident and one Mosgiel resident being the farthest away. The results of the ballot were as follows, the number of the applicants in each case being given in parentheses):—

Tara Estate (second-class land). —No. 1 section, 355 acres, half-yearly rent £55 155.: J. Morrison, Albury (11); No. .2, 450 acres, rent £84 16s. Bd.: Jessie Tresizc, Morvcn (8); No. 3, 427 acres, rent £82 IGs. 6d.: Walter Alaslin, Geraldine (16); No. 4, 398 acres, rent £12: H. J. Arthur, Leeston (27);' No. 5, 593 acres, rent £147: Sarah Shine, Oamaru (35); No. 6, 468 acres, rent £100 165.: C. S. Price, Waimate (41); No. .7. 520 acres, rent £110 18s. 6d.:Lilian Hampton, Douglas Settlement, (60); No. 8, 412 acres, rent £74 ss.'. James Jtaoney, Waimato (11). . Lansdown Settlement (first-class land).—No. 1, 206 acres, rent £68 17s;: A. B. Topp, Oamaru (3); No. 2, 211 acres, rent £66 35.: E. Creeser, Waimate (4); No. 3, 39 acres, rent £82 2s. 6d.; C. Flynn, Oamaru; No. 4, 289 acres, rent £104: Agnes Edwards, Mosgiel (6); No. 5/ 205 acres, rent £77 12s. 6d.: Margaret Goldstone, Waimate (10); No. 6, acres, rent £75 16s. 6d.: W. M'Carvon, Waimate (15) ;\ No. 7, 215 acres, rent £74 9s. 6d.: John Smith, Timaru Road, Waimate (8); No. 8, 181 acres, rent £68 2s. 6d.: Mrs Foley, Waimate (13); N0..9, 223 acres, rent £75 16s.- 6d.: M. Powell. Waimate (12). ,