LAND ADMINISTRATION. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 7

LAND ADMINISTRATION. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — The result of the recent oallot, alloting the fourteen sections of the M'Kenzie Special Settlement Block, has caused general dissatisfaction among tho unsuccessful applicants. It wus generally understood, and, indeed, pointed out by the Wairarapa Daily Timed, that the block was for village settlement, and therefore available only to people who were previously landless. Practically speaking, theso fourteen tections presented an opportunity to working people of the labouring class of establishing a home. The number of applications greatly exceeded the number of sections, and in tho ranks of the disappointed were a number of deserving cases. I will quote two facts which seem to show grounds for complaint. A has 75 acres and a stock of cows. His family manage the farm, while he is in constant work on the road. B is partner in a dairy farm of 150 acres, carrying 40 cows. A and B got two of the best sections, and these, I might add, are situated about half a mile from their respective farms. Now, the landless disappointees want to know if A and B aro likely to be as much benefited by the acquisition of their new properties as those who never having had any have none now? Secondly, why were A and B, in possession of good dairy properties, allowed to participate in the allotment of Eections which were primarily intended for those who had none? Can you tell us? — I am, etc., ENQUIRER. Pahiatua, lOfch April, 1902.