THE EARTH HUNGER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 324, 25 February 1910, Page 6

THE EARTH HUNGER.

| DANNEVIRKE LAND BALLOT. | By Telegraph.—Press Association. ! Dannevirke, Thursday. There was a large a tendance at the j ballot for the Rumeti and Mangatera i sections yesterday afternoon. The proceedings , were conducted by the Com- | misioner of Crown Lands, Mr. Brodjerick... With him were Messrs. George I Wright and W. E. Ackroyd, members |of the Land Board. The Commissioner, ■in his opening remarks, said that they ■ had been fairly strict in rejecting applications from those who had small | areas of land, but, considering the very J large number of applicants from land* i less, tliey thought they were justified | in giving the landless applicants first ; chance. A large number would be unsuccessful, and lie would say to those I that there were other sections which i would be opened shortly. There was | the Clydebank estate at Frasertown, | Wairoa, and the Ngatapa estate near [Gisborne. each of about 10,000 acres. In a few months he hoped to see a few more sections opened up near Dannevirke. Seven hundred and eleven applications' were received from about 398 applicants. The results of the ballot were as follows: Norsewood Survey District:—Secondclass land: Block 12, section 5, 352 acres 1 rood 19 perches (27 applicants), Donald Thorbuni, Dannevirke, 0.R.P.; section C, 350 acres (28 applicants), John Wilson Lang, Napier, 0.R.P.; section 7, 174 acres 1 rood 18 perches (14 applicants), Robert Boyne, Woodville, 0.R.P.; section 8, 707 acres 2 roods 7 perches' (110 applicants), James Miller, Mangatera, 0.R.P.; section 9, 537 acres (52 applicants), James Baker, Hastings, 0.R.P.; section 13, 158 acres 1 rood 23 perches (CO applicants), James FrederickMeagher, Napier, 0.R.P.. land: Section 11, 134 acres 1 rood 1 perch (45 applicants), A. E. Romley, Utiwa, Feilding, 0.R.P.; s'ection 2, block 15, 100 acres (01 applicants), Harry Smith, Tipapakuku, 0.R.P.; section 12, 148 acres 1 rood 30 perches (39 applicants), Walter Puddle, Blenheim, 0.R.P.; section 14, 132 acres 3 roods 21 perches (75 applicants), Edward G. Warburton, Palnierston North, O.R.P. Tahorite Survey District.—First-class land: Block 1, Section 35, 177 acres 0 roods 10 perches (G4 applicants), John Rice, Mangatera, 0.R.P.; section 45, 87 acres 1 rood 13 perches (Oft applicants), Marv Rasmussen, Ormondville, £l9 as, R.L.; Mangatera settlement, section 81, 7 acres, Mary Roxburgh, Tamnki: section S3, D acres Racluiel Roxburgh, Tamalci; section 84, 8 acres, W. McMillan: section 80, 7 acres, George Jo-nes, Dannevirka