LAND SETTLEMEN
Press Association. NELSON. August 14. The settlement of the back countri of Nelson which was locked up f o i seventeen years under the Raihvaj Act is now progressing very satisfac torily. Thirty-five thousand acres ii Central Duller, including the Alid mania. Rappa, Hanoc'k, Warwick and Tutaki estates being thrown open. A ballot took olace at Afurcliison to-day in the presence of Mr. Elangan, Coni' missioner of Crown Lands, and 26.
500 acres were taken up, while the probabilities, arc that the balance wi)’ b - secured in the course of a few
days by those disappointed at thr ballot. The applications for the various sections ranged in number from 1 to 48, and as well as Nelson applicants there were settlers from Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay. Wellington, Alarlborough, Canterbury and Otago.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2159, 15 August 1907, Page 2
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