LAND SETTLEMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2601, 30 December 1893, Page 3

LAND SETTLEMENT.

The Paeeoea Block.

The Pareora block, situated iu the Waimate County, recently acquired by the Government from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company’s Pareora Estate, was allotted at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Thursday, by ballot. The land is situated to the south of the Pareora River and west of the main line of railway, the nearest station being St, Andrews, distant about two miles. The block is connected with Timaru by the Main South fiload, the distance being about eight The sections comprise open level land_ of good quality, at present laid down in English grass. The Otaio water-race supplies some of the sections, and many are well fenced. Water can be easily obtained by the means of shallow wells. All the surrounding roads are good, and the sections are in every way adapted to the purpose for which they are leased in perpstuity, via., to make homes for working men, gardeners, and others. The block is divided into twenty-nine sections, the areas varying from ten acres to twenty ttcfeg, the half-yearly rent ranging between £3 and £9. There were 880 applications; all except three sections being applied for and allottee. The following are the successful applicants :~ Otaio Survey District-. -“■ Section 1, block KIL, 26a 3r 38p, i3a 1.2 d per acre —Donald McKenzie; eighteen applicants. Section 3,2 fa, 12s 8.4 d per acre—John 0 ! Connor; twenty-five applicants. Section 3,27 a, 12s 8.4 d per acre—Elisa Williams ; twenty-nine applicants. Section 4,20 a, 13s 0.6 d per acre ““John Arden; twent-eight applicants. Section 5, Oa 3r IBp, 13a 8.4 d per acre—Henry StoWell; five applicants. Section 6,10 a, 14s Ud per acre—Henry Bateman; six applicants. Section ?, 10a, 13s I.Bd per acre—Elizabeth Deans; six. applicants. Section 15, block XII., '2Ba, 13s S.4d per acre—Mary O’Connor; twenty applicants.

Patiti Survey District. --- Section 11, block IV., 20a, 13s 7.2 d per acre—Alexander Hastings ; twelve applicants. Section 12—18 a 2r 32p, 13s 3.6 d per acre —Mary Eliza Hermen; eight applicants. Section 13,15 a, 12s 10.8 d per acre—James Connor ; eleven applicants Section Id, 24a Ir 2p, 12s 8.4 d per acre—James Bowie; nineteen applicants. Section 19, 24a 3r 19p, 12s 5.4 d per acre—Andrew M’Clintock ; fifteen applicants. Section 20,25 a, 12s I.Bd per acre—Lizzie Spiers; eighteen applicants. Section 23,28 alr 22p, 13s 3d per acre—Mary Connor ; fifteen applicants. Section 24, 16a 2r, 12s I.Bd per acre—A. F. Harmer ; two applicants. Section 25,16 a2r 4p, 13s 3.Gd per acre— Matilda Vincent; four applicants. Section 26, 34a 3r, 12s 6d per acre-—Mary Aim Hasty; twenty applicants Section 27, 20a, 12a 2.4 d per acre—Eliza Boucher; thirteen applicants. Section 28,15 aOr 4t>, 12s 6.6 d per acre—James Mulhollana; nine applicants. Section 29, 16a lr 6p, 13s 6.6 d per acre—Jeremiah Long; seven applicants. Otaio and Patiti Survey Districts.— Section 16, Block XII., 27a3r38p, 12s 6d per acre —Michael Eijrdan ; thirteen applicants. Section 17, Block IV., 27a lr 7p, 13s 3d per acre —J. C. Williams; twenty-two applicants. Section 18, 23a 3r 29p, 13s I.Bd per acre—Ellen Caswell; twenty-five applicants. Section 21, Blocks XII. and IV., 26a 3r 38p, 14s per acre— George Wilcock ; twelve applicants. Section 22, 27a lr 38p, 13s per acre—J. 0. Williams, jun.; seventeen applicants. Waimate Survey District. Four sections of land in the Waimate survey diatmtj uHuaM adjswty to tbewaiu

of railway, about two mile south of Studholme Junction, were also opened. It is flat agricultural land of good quality and is all laid down in English grass,, with sod and gorse fences. The following were allotted : —Section 1, Block XV,, 20a lr 25p, 14s 7.2 d per acre—Richard Hinch; two applicants. Section 2,18 a, 11s 5.4 d per acre Mary Hinch ; one applicant. Section 4, Blocks XII, and XYL, 48a Or 23p, 15a 7.2 d per acre—- . William Melton ; nineteen applicants.— Lyttelton Times. At the ballot for land in the Otago Central District on Thursday, there were numerous applications for nearly every section. For one section close to the Swinburn Farm homestead Association there were 121 applicants, and for another 92. About 75 per cent of the applications were under the lease in perpetuity system, 2 percent for cash, and the remainder on lease with right to purchase.

Nineteen blocks of a total area of 270,565 acres are now under offer to the Government, and the Commissioners are at work investigating the offers, beginning in Marlborough, where four blocks of 80,300 acres are offered. In Canterbury there are six blocks, one of them 114,000 acres; total 119,175 acres. In Otago six blocks, 14,090 acres. In Southland two blocks, 47,000 acres. In Hawke’s Bay 110,000 acres. If is found that the restriction of selections to 320 acres prevents some desirable land being acquired, because the area allowed settlers from native land would be too small to be profitable. Nearly 10,000 acres in South Canterbury and Otago, lately acquired, will shortly be opened under perpetual lease. The Kamo Coal Company’s property, north of Auckland is under offer to the Government.