LAND BALLOT.
" ENTIRELY.. ONE FOR LANDLESS : r.; • ; people." . : (BY ; TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPOKDGXT*! " , " "".' ! Auckland, March 10.. ! ' The first ballot -tinder tho liew Land Laiva Amendment Act was held at the Auckland , Lands Offico this afternoon. , The. Commissioner. (Mr. M'Kenxie) said that this was tho first important ballot under the riSw Act, and the applicants ' wero all .landless: Ho looked , iipon' this 'ballot"as' entirely one for : landless people, 'ind only thoso wlio,.really 'needed .land'would, get'it. . As they knew, tha ballot had'been postponed to alloiv' th<i authorities to discover which applicants were entitled t<i liroferelicG oil the. grounds' of being landloss. Out of 21 applicants for oiio section lio fower than 16 had been thrown' out : because \they'. already possessed land,"/ th'ils leaving only five- genuinely lalidless applicants. Out of over 500 who had put in for the different sections thero ; had only'been one ob lection raised to tho postponement of the ballot. . . . ■■ :'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 2
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149LAND BALLOT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 2
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