Important Grown Lands Sale

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 27, 17 August 1889, Page 2

Important Grown Lands Sale

Had the pessimist who is ever ready to decry the colony, and to assert that no good can possibly come out of Nazareth, attended the Crown lands sale held under the auspices of the Waste Lands Board, which commenced last Thursday morning, he would, to use a slang phrase, have received an " eye opener." Nine blocks of Crown lands, amounting in the aggregate to 80,000 acres of land, were thrown open for selection. The lots comprised land at Waitotara — an old battle-field, not far from Wanganui- at Mangakaretu, some fifty miles from , Wanganui ; Otairi, near Hunterville; Otamakapua, above Feilding; Pohangina, near Ashurst (Manawatu Gorge); Mangttho and Puketoi, which is to the east of Pabiatua. The lands referred to have been sub-divided into first and second classes, and are again divided into surveyed and unsurveyed classes.' For days past applications have been rolling into the offices of the Board at a tremendous rate, but it was impossible 'olearn the number of persons who W re anxious to avail thc-ms dye this chance of obtaining holdings. The max imumof app ic. tions for first- class land • restricted to 640 acts, whilst those who go in for inferior land can select any amount up to 2000 acres. At ten o'clock on Thursday morning the public room was rushed, and those who first gained admission secured priority of chance. The "pegging out " on paper continued all day. A receiver from the Crown Lands Department was in attendance to take charge of the moneys paid in by ae--1 ctors.— Post. The sale of Crown lands, which began in the Waste Lands office on Thursday, was concluded yesterday .vith most satisfactory results. The applications rtcaived for surveyed land were as follow : — Cash system, 24 ; deferred payment, 60 ; perpetual lease, 408. For unsurveyed land applications were as follow : — Cash, 3 j deferred payment, 7 ; perpetual lease* 61. Totals— Cash, 27; deferred payment, 67 ; and perpetual lease, 469, making a grand total of 563 applicants. The cash results of the sale have not yet been arrived at, but it is believed that the gross capital value will amount to over £40,000. — Times.