BALLOTS FOR LAND
TENURES CHOSEN BY SERVICEMEN (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Aug. 27. Figures relating to tenures chosen by former servicemen who have been successful in ballots for Crown land were released by the Minister of Lands (the Hon. C. F. .Skinner) today. They are: Selected on Renewable lease' 170, selected under agreement for sale and purchase 246. The Minister said that to date 594 selections had been offered for ballot by the Lands and Survey Department, but .in 178 cases the successful applicants had not yet been required to choose the tenure they preferred. They were employed on wages meantime, carrying out improvements necessary to successful individual occupation of their sections, and as soon as these were completed the value of the sections would be determined and they would be asked what tenure they preferred.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 271, 28 August 1946, Page 4
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