LAND SETTLEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 3

LAND SETTLEMENT.

.;•'■ ;.'fa -I|elecr«Dh.--Prees'-A«iiociiit.ioß,y . • ' •'■<;•':■. ■.-..'. .!, Christchurch.Sfarch,'9. T ;A recount of..applications; received for selection on ; the Tripp Settlement 'gives-a erand .total, "of .342,. but;, of-these .fifteen' hare; been rejected oil account of havine been, received! at. the office ,;6£ :the Land .Hoard, later.'than 4. p.m. yesterday. The tufe.in.regard to .the formal.Reception.of ■ applications is that the papers-must-be in the Land Office ia .Christchnrch,. or deposited in.any. constituted .'land' office by the;h.<mrfix<kl and on: the":dhy; specified, and/ it; they. are.:.not-sp..received or deposited; they,' cannot" be ' recognised. "• t number, of those rejected were posted yesterday,' but did not' cojne toihano until this morning,. and, therefore,, could not be counted) .Others , disclosed vital:iinf orinalitiesi.or omissions', in information which 1 is' required. , ''lt;.ie"not unusual'.-'Wr''ap-plicants,to send-in incomplete pspersi'but ■■ officers: of-'th'e ; local land'nffice have, where time'permitted,, sent back'the papers for' corrfictidn.,'|.. :.."■■ ,'.;•.;■'• v ■■■•'.■■.;