LAND BALLOT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 December 1920, Page 5

LAND BALLOT

SOLDIER SETTLEMENTS.

Ballots for a number of sections of land.in Taranaki open for settlement by returned 'soldiers were held yesterday at the office of the Land Board, New Plymouth (reports the News). The blocks were the Kohura and Marco estates (McCutchan's) at Kohuratahi, and the Huatoki area (Saxton s). Of the Kohura sections, four were disposed of by ballot and the remainder are still open for selection, as are also the three sections, comprising the Marco block, for which no applications were received. Ten Huatoki allotments were taken ut>, and the remaining twenty-seven, ranging in area from two acres to 23 acres, are still open. The ballots were conducted by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr G. H. Bullard) in the presence of members of the Board and applicants. Particulars are: KOHURA. Section 1 (88 acres), unapplied for. Section 2 (235 acres), G. H. Corbett. Section 3 (664£ acres), unapplied for/ Section 4 (270 acres), Simon. Praser. Section 5 (227 acres), unapplied for. Section 6 (306 acres), unapplied for Section 7 (541 acres), J. C. Moore. Sections 8 and 12 (365 and 424 acres), unapplied for. Section 9 (427 acres), Barta" and Clarke. Section 10 (436f acres), still open. Section 11 (298 acres), still open. HUATOKI. Section 7 (21 acres 2 roods), A. E Haynes. ' Section 16 (4 acres 1 rood 31 perches), Section 23 (7 acres 3 perches), P R Draper. " ' lldrTd iOn 24 (2 aCreS 1 fOod)} H- R*oSSFKindbiJ! "^ 18 P"dw')'1 Arihur^iU 3 aCreS 2 A- XBu^r iOQ 28 (12 aCFeS 3 rOods)' James EnS^dberl 0 m 2° *«*»>' J 30 a°reS 2 erches)' B. Section 31 (8 acres 1 rood), E \ Hupe. ./'