Land and Timber.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43119, 1 August 1907, Page 3

Land and Timber.

SECTIONS OPEN FOR APPLICATION. Lowing demand eor land. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This DaySeveral additional sections and blocks of Crown land in the Auckland district will shortly be available for selection. Applications for sections in Waimana settlement will be received on August sth, and a week later three more blocks lying to the south of Opotiki will be opened. Judging by the number of selectors already entered for these lands, competition at the ballots will be keen.

. August 28th a small reserve m Rawene will be opened for lease under Public Reserves Act, and ten small sections in the township of Wab arpa-will be offered for sale. On the saji|Sdate a section of 430 acres in near Matamata and one of 328 acres in Punui district, near Otorohanga will be available. On September 18th a section Returned Troopers’ Block,” Otanake S D., will be offered on the optional system. Up till August 7th tenders will be received for the purchase of kauri and other milling timber standing on parts of Blocks XV. and XVI Maunga, parts of Blocks XV. and XVI, Maungataniwha S.D., Omahutu State forest,