CULVERDEN TOWNSHIP BALLOT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 29 January 1909, Page 7

CULVERDEN TOWNSHIP BALLOT.

CHRISTCHURCH, January 28.

A ballot for the township sections of the Culverden estate was conducted at the Land Office this morning. The Department had submitted for application 29 sections, bnt only eleven applicants were put in in respect of six sections. The following were the successful applicants at the ballot: — No. 2, two applicants, half acre, Ellen Jane 'Barnes (Culverden) ; No. 14, five applicants, 1 acre 1 rood 3 perches, Jas. J. Bell (Hawarden); No. 43, one applicant, 3 acres, Oscar Anderson (Hanmer) ; No. 16, one applicant, 2 acres 1 rood 12 perches, Wm. John Cardwell (Culverden) ; No. 51, one applicant ,6 acres 2 roods 26 perches, John Cardwell (Culverden) ; No. 51, one applioant, 6 acres 2 roods 26 perches, John Cardwell (Culverden) ; No. 35, one applicant, 2 roods, Archibald J. Clark, Motiman. It is probable that several other sections will be selected within a few days. The land is being offered under the renewable lease system.