ON THE MAIN TRUNK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 287, 28 August 1908, Page 2

ON THE MAIN TRUNK.

.LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT. ' ,At the meeting of the Wellington Land Board yesterday, the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. Jas. Mackenzie) submitted proposals for • the ,■ disposal .of . landi in Horopito West Township and Village Set-' tlement as follows:—78 town lots, comprising' an area of 33 acres, for cash, by publio unction at upset prices ranging from £80 to £-'C 7.; 62 town lots, comprising an. area of 24 acres, for renewable leaso for periods of 33 years, at rentals ranging from £1 10s.> to £4-16s. per annum; 64 village homesteads, comprising an area of 280 acres, for renewable leases for periods of 66 years, at rents ranging from £1 lis. 2d. to £7-12s. 10d. per annum. The board approved the proposals. Tho Commissioner also submitted, and the board approved, proposals for offering allotments in Rangataua township and village settlement. The lots referred to -are as f0110w53 .town lots, comprising an area of 15 acres, for sale for cash by public auction, at upset prices ranging from £17 to £92; 42 town' lots, comprising an area, of 12 acros, for'renewable lease for periods of 33 years, at rentals of ,5 por cent, per annum, rentals range from 176. to £4 12s. per annum;-and 22 village homestead allotments, • comprising an area of 111 acros, .ranging in area-from. 1 acre to 11 acres, at rents rrjiging frop £1 7s. 2d. to £6 Bs. lOd. -per annum. - -

LAND HUNGER. V, There will be ?. ballot for the.lease of. these • sections of Crown land at Maungakaretu (17' miles from Mataroa on the main trunk lino) at 2.30 p.m. to-dav. For section I there were 53' applicants, of three were found to bo not landless,' nine were unsuit- • able, and one was informal, leaving 40 ill' to-day's ballot. For station II thereto —tij originally 40 applicants, of whom ll»>; ~ been disqualified from participation r there were the same number of appi.oant" for section 111, with a similar number -'A disqualifications.