FURTHER PROOF.
If furtlit'i- proof were wa.iitrd of the assertion we made in ©u.r of yesterday that the rush for sections in. the Hauraki Piain. H was due to the fact that the land ifc Hndeuvalue:!, rather than' to a genuine f>.nrth-hun-ger, we have only to point bo a ballot in the .sout.Ji. which toDk place yesterday. hi the Hauraki Plains gamble, -the'-o were 4257 applications for 112 secfion.s. In the ballet for the -Ota mo mo mo settlement, which contains. 1280 acres, i« within .six miles of Balelutha. and is desorii)ed by the Premier as "good land, fit for dairying," there were, up till Wednesday laft-t, only :s i\-tee-n. Oipplieations. Surely, if earth-hunger were responsible for the rush in the north, there would not this disparity in the number of applicants. We should he glad of an assurance from the Government that the Hauraki Plain* rush is not a result of a huge blunder on the part of those, who we.vo for the valuations put upon the sections.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 March 1913, Page 4
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169FURTHER PROOF. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 March 1913, Page 4
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