LAND AUCTION.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 11

LAND AUCTION.

EDUCATION RESERVES LEASE.

The auction sala of the leases of education reserves, lot 2 of ,E.R. 2004, block 11., "Wuipaia Survey District and lots 1 and 2 »vf E.E. 1114, block XII., Waipara Survey District, was conducted yesterday by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr G. H. Builard. There was a gcod attendance of buyers and bidding was brisk. The auction of the leases of the areas mentioned, which comprised of a. totul aTea of 860 .acres, resulted in the sale of all three lot^. Lot 2, E.R. 200 d, comprising 387 acres, 2 roods, 2 perches ivas leased to Mr P. C. Hoben at the upset annnal rental of .£155. Lot 1 of E.E. 1 hi, comprising 192 acres, 0 roods 28 perches', was leased' to Ah* C. Trounce for £165 rental per annum, ani lot 2 of the same block, oomprising- 281 acies 0 roods 22 perches, was also sold to Mr Trounco at an annual rental of £2.55-.

Bad < writing l'ed to an amusing comedy in Paris recently. In the Chamber of Deputies M. , Gast pointed out a curious error 0 in tho official report of one of his speeches., He had said -that M. Cheron, the Minister of Agriculture, had ''a magnificent' but seductive voice," using the word "verbe" for voice. In transcription this word was badly written, and in printing had been read as "ventre," so that Gaat'i speech read that M. Cheron had "a magnificent but seductive stomach." la point of fact, M. Cheron is a" small man, quit' decvoid of anything approaching a "corporation," and the Chamber enjoyed the jokfc all the more when the President of the Chamber iiaid he thought, the correction was hardly necessary.