OHAU LAND SALE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 June 1920, Page 3

OHAU LAND SALE.

8 Yesterday Messrs Abraham and ui!- | liams offered at Levin, on' account ot | Mr F. S Easton, the Te Kanawa Station, close to Levin, consisting of 2001 acres, of both grazing lands and properties suTiable for dairying. There was a very large attendance, but it soon became apparent that the majority were attracted more by curiosity 1 than with any idea of purchasing. The i smaller sections, suitable for dairying. » sold fairly well, but. the pastoral lands | failed to elicit any competition, and I the homestead of 1373 acres, with a I leasehold of 82 acres thrown in. was I passed in at £l2 10s per acre. Out of [ the eleven sections offered only live were sold at prices ranging from £<•!> to £BB per acre for heavy land suitable for dairying. The following are par-| ticuiars of the sections offered: —Lot Ln 119 i acres, passed at £l<> Lis, lot 2. 32 bj; acres, passed at £27; lot 3. -h'2 acres | with homestead and house ol twenty : rooms, passed in at £1.1; lot. 1. L!72t acres, with S2A acres of leasehold, j passed in at £l2 lbs; lot .1. US acres. 1 G. Tantrum, Otaki, at £b!l; lot d. 1 1 !•<> j acres, at £44 10s, to Mr A. McLeavt'y. Ohau; lot 7, UK* acres, passed in al j £43; lot S, 51? acres, passed in at. £7!':, j lot t>, 51? acres, £32. Mr S. E. Deacon, j Wanganui; lot lb, 51? acres. £B3. Mr L. j W. Jeffries, Buunythorpe; lot If. 43:; j acres, Mr LV. liolton, Otaki. The total j for the land sold was £22,000.