GOVERNMENT LAND SALE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 102, 6 April 1881, Page 2

GOVERNMENT LAND SALE.

There was a fair attendance of the public at the land sale,, which was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, sthinstant| about forty or fifty being present. The Commissioner promised that in the event of any intending settler desiring a section to be again put np at the close of the sale he would do so. As he had been, asked what works the Government pro* posed to execute, he had taken pains to obtain the desired information. The following works are to be undertaken by the Government: — Manaia road to be cleared and made practicable np to Hursthouse's line. Ahipaipa load to be cleared and made practicable from Skeet road np to Hurst* house's line. A bridge is being built over \ the Inaha stream. Northern boundary of block to be cleared two chains wide. The railway may some day be made along it to Manaia road. Hursthouse's line will be cleared and formed from Waingongoro to Manaia road. The conditions of sale having been read, the first to be offered was the Bush Land. • ■ Kaupokonui Survey District. Block XV. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, were passed. Sec. Area. Upset price. Paid. A. B. F. & 8. d- &S. d. 8 133 2 24 1 10 0 1 15 0 9 139 0 0 200 200 10 132 220 1 10 0 1 10 0 J. McGrath, farmer, Porirua, Wellington. 19 100 0 0 115 0. 1 17 6 H. B. Cockburn, Hawera. Block XVI. Sections 9, 15, 21, 22, passed. 5 100 0 0 1 10 0 . 1 10 0 6 100 0 0 110 0 ' 11Q O 6 100 0 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 Jas. Henry, Waikato. 20 164 0 0 1 10 0 110 0 — Hadland, Normanby. 25 124 0 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 D. MoLdowie, Hawera. Ngaire Survey District. Block Kin. Sections 28, 39, 43, 45, 49, 51, 52, passed. 47 100 O O 1 10 O 1 10 O — P. McGuire, Hawera. . 48 100 0 0 1 10 0 2 0 0 — Bollock, Canterbury. 50 100 0 0 110 0 . 110 0" Walden Bros., Manawatu, Waimate Plains. Block VII. 31 92 00 400 700 32 103 0 0 4 0 0 6 16 0 J. Winks, Hawera. There was no request to put up any section a second time. In several instances the buyers' real name did not appear at the time of sale,"-as they employed agents. The sale maybe regarded as a successful one, as -there, arc -now only about seventeen sections unsold^in these blocks. — r " In reply to a question put by Mr. McLdowie, regarding the opening of roads and survey lines on the bush lands, the Commissioner of Crown Lands stated that the land would be dealt with in the same manner as other similar land. It was customary only to cut the first few chains of dividing boundary lines between sections.