LAND BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 14

LAND BOARD.

ALLOTMENT BY BALLOT. The-District Land Board Diet ngain. yesterday. There were present: Messrs; James-Mac-kenzie (Commissioner o£ Crown: Lands), A. Kocee, C. J. Canton, and H. T; .EUingham. An allotment of two acres in the Bangatana Village Settlement was • balloted for. It comprised Sections 2 and 3, Block x, of * capiW value of £96. Tho hall-yearly, rental is £1 18e.', Ud. , ~Thero .were ton applicants, Mr. Georgo .Harris boing sueoessfnl in the baUot, Rangataua is situated on the Main-Trunk, railway, aW three miles eouth-cast of Oliakune and 108 miles from Wellington. The Sons are nearly all lew>l,' end aw covered by standing mixed bosh. 'A sawmill, goneta Btore, poet and telegraph .office,- and, school havo been erected in the vicinity. ■ Sis applications, were received-for 5 acres in Ohaknne Village. Settlement (Section 11), the capital value bling JCOO. and half-year y rental M 16s. Ohakuno, which Iβ. 201 mi es from Wellington, is described as the outlet to a mUmdid eaVmilline and' I<**V>% district, and Smtains a post ant telegraph ol.ee, creenery. school, to£ hall, and ,numerous shops and accommodation houses. The eeetaon disposed Motions in the Pohonui Village SettlomenTiwffe balloted for. The first, was- beobon acres, total price JOBB I, half-yearly vatA 12s. s the seebnf was Section 46-arca 32 acres total price , 'JE2oo,! half-yearly rent, L For Section ,13 there Were' three applicants of whom Mr. Edmund Holt w» sueSSrfnl Section 48 went to Mr; A. A. B. Ueg£?out of three applicants. Pohonu, Ks,tnlate and is covered with light bush; part ot SectioS 46 has been felled; tho, soil.'is.a dark Sflood?q na litr: The Pohonm School-•» in the'Pohonui Village pr The Commissioner advised the.Wd-ftat. wmmm Adjustment was leff w,th X 'SSTrdT"he Payments- of rentf in >»j should not be preyed for payment of their rental for a period of two years. ■ . ;