LAND BALLOT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 66, 8 September 1911, Page 5

LAND BALLOT

KEEN INTEREST AT HUNTERYILLE. I By Telegraph—Press Association. j llimterville, Last Night. .Mr. Janie.s McKenzie, Commissioner of ( low it Lmds. assisted bv the Land Hoard, conducted a most successful ballot for Crown lands at the Town llall, Marton, to-day. The hind is known as the Moriiiui block, in the Waimarino district, and comprises an area of about 23,000 acres. l'rior to the ballot, the whole of the lands had been applied for. Applications bad closed at 4 o'clock on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of applicants present at the ballot. Before the proceedings commenced, the Commissioner addressed the applicants, pointing out that the Board had carefully gone through each application and kid given every deserving man a chance. I ollow'ing the well-defined policy of his Board, people who were not landless were rejected. The same rule was applied to single women, except perhaps in such a case as a daughter keeping house for a widowed father. The Commissioner drew attention merely as a warning to the penal clauses of the Land Act. ° At the completion of the ballot, seventeen applications were received for five sections which remained unallotted. These wilt be ballotted for in Wellington shortly.