TE ARAI SETTLEMENT.
li ALLOT 10 A.M. TO-DAY
Tho members of tho Land Board had an exceptionally busy day yesterday in examining tho applicants for tlio sections of tho Te Arai estato. Tlio examinations commenced at 9 a.m., and were pot concluded until about 9 p.m. Two hundred and thirty applications in all wero received for 55 sections, tlio majority being from this district, but there, wero also applicants hailing from AVcllington, Auckland, Christclmich, Dunedin and various other parts of Die Dominion. Taken all round, tlio applicants wero of a particularly good class, aiul a very considerable amount of capital was represented There are still a few sections not applied for, and it probable that a ballot will bo held oil Saturday for any that may remain unallotted. The ballot will take place this morning at 10 o’clock in the Drillshed. Tlio objection having been raised that the values placed on tlio different sections by tho Government wero too high, Mr. Hyde, a member of the Board, when seen by a “Times reporter, stated that, in his opinion, a thoroughly practical farmer would doubtless bo successful oil tho land, but that there was considerable doubt as to whether any other applicant without wide experience would bo able to do well.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 27 March 1908, Page 2
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210TE ARAI SETTLEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 27 March 1908, Page 2
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