LAND HUNGER.
2000 applications lodged.
(Per Press Association.) Palmerston North, last night. mu a ballot foe 6700 aores of the Awarua has lately thrown open, took place at Mangaweka to-day. That a great land hunc9r exists is shown by tho fact that there were no Ices tban 2000 applications lodized. The scone at Mangaweka during of the ballot was remarkable P ana the hall whore tho Commissioner aat*was crowded all day with five or six hundred anxious people, representing a classes: of socioty and drawn from: all. quarters of the North.lsland. Th ais the more striking in view of the foot that the land*is second-class, and by no means o the choicest description. The name- of ihe successful applicants ore not yet to band,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1578, 7 October 1905, Page 3
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124LAND HUNGER. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1578, 7 October 1905, Page 3
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