THE BUSH FOR LAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1903, Page 3

THE BUSH FOR LAND.

(To the Editor.) en-Will y° n kindly give m f spa f ?'7 fl the truth of the article pubtt,l s 4? the "Auckland Weekly 8£ fJatarvlsTre-Theßush „?*• I like to read such ruban OppStion paper ItemUte how P terribly hard pushed P f Ire for a chance to have a dig X G ieat, tether justifiW ««"duplication "it is plain Iv?fr every satisfied -applicant f J weS empty away.'.'. Has it to the wonderfully asllA be strange that time after tfSthe King Country land MlZ near iv seventy-five per cent, of Successful are local Arsons' This should raise-a doubt X the genuineness of the total of With regard to the Klotreferredtointheartjcle Ser discussion, I happen to know to certain of one man who wanted a action, and to increase his chance of is he and thirteen other memtea of Ms family put in applications for no less than seven sections each. So that this one man was responsible for ninety-eight applications. I knnw still another who wanted a ifo got five of his relatives bes , limself eachto apply for ten sections, nate a further sixty applications; nd ffeuerally it is an understood \W that nobody who really wants a section would dream of putting in Ms-owe application only and for one section only. The rule is to jamb in as many applications as ever you have friends to put in on your behalf. For my part I do not suppose that any applicant at the recent ballot at Te Awamntn put in for less than four or hi sections. Yet the "News" gets Into print, in its usual blatant and utterly misleading style, to the effect -that three hundred and sixty persons rinting land "went' empty away." Tommy rot! I do not for one moment telieve that so many as fifty tuna fide applicants for sections applied among the vhole 1068 applications.-! am, etc.,

ONE WHO KNOWS THE LAND AND THE MAJORITY OF THE APPLICANTS. KiHkihi, January 1,1903.