Sale of Strathmore Township.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) . Mr. Newton King, in conjunction with Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co., offered hAk auction, at Stratford, on the 28th mv!^ v the above township on behalf of Messrs. Aiken, Brewer and Erull. There was a good attendance. Mr. King, in opening the proceedings, said that there was a reserve for a Government township a mile I or two away, but it was in a bad situation, the land being low. Strathmore was in a much better spot, and was an old Maori clearing^ He believed on good authority that the Government had no intention of going on with their township if this one was started.
was started. Tbe following lotß were then sobmitted :— No. 104, £ 25, Sobiemey ; 108, . ,£26, Thomson ; 102, £23. P. Girk; 101» '. £25, Ooutts; 114, £18, McDonald; 115, ) no 15s per aore, F. McGuire; 116, £12 , 5b per aore, Percy Wilson; 100, £20, Stewart, gives it for a sohool site (ap* plause) ; 17, £25, Lusk ; 1, £25, Towns, end; 86, £15, Dudeok; 132, £17, Ooutts; 126, £15, Bianobard; Pohokura, sub* section 17, 2,200 acres, on account of Brewer and Krull, passed in at 11b. There was little competition, most of' the lots that were sold being disposed of at the upset, or at a very slight advance*
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2365, 1 March 1893, Page 2
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218Sale of Strathmore Township. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2365, 1 March 1893, Page 2
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