LAND BALLOT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 15

LAND BALLOT

A BUSH-COVERED BLOCK

SHEEP AND CATTLE COUNTRY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, 11th July. Considerable interest was shown here to-day in the ballot for the Paroporo block, of 5316 acres of. second-class bushcovered land, about ten miles from Tikitiki, on the East Coast, and about ninety miles north of Gisborne. .

The block has been divided into five sections, with good soilon papa and stony tormation, and the sections are suitable tor sheep and cattle-raising. There were forty applicants, who came trom the Poverty Bay district, Hawkes Bay,. Bay of Plenty, North Island Main Trunk line, and Wellington. Many of the applicants put in for more than one section, so that the , total applications numbered 78. ■ ■■..■■

The ballot resulted as follows:— Section 1 (area 1319 acres), seven applicants: R. W. Hayes, Karioi, North Island Mam Trunk line.

Section 2 (1344 acres), twelve applicants: J. A. Brownlie, Motuhora, Poverty Bay Section 3 (823 acres), twenty-one applicants: W. A. Hayes, Matawai, Poverty Section 4 (1030 acres), nineteen applicants: A. D, Bruce, Tokomaru Bay. Section 5 (800 acres), nineteen applicants: E. A. Fraser, Whangara, Poverty Bay. • • , *