AUCKLAND CROWN LANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 3

AUCKLAND CROWN LANDS.

AN IMPORTANT BALLOT. 13,261 ACRES SELECTED. The ballot for sections of Crown lands in tile large areas thrown open in various parts of the Auckland provincial district on Wednesday 'last took place at the District Land and Survey Office, Custom-street West, yesterday forenoon. Mr, Gerhard Mueller Commissioner of Crown Lands, supervised the ballot, and there were some 50 or 60 applicants in attendance to witness the proceedings. The total number of applications received and dealt with was 445, and the area, disposed of by ballot and! without competition was 18,261 acres. The huilk of the land, which is second-class, is situated in the Kawhia and Hokianga districts, and the greater part of it was taken up' under the occupation with right of purchase tenure. The details of the ballot are as under: Surveyed Selections.Section 4, Block II.: 252 acres, Kawhiai South, lease in perpetuity, Jno. Grotty; 52 applicants. Section 5, Block II.: 183 acres, Kawhia South, Jeas® in perpetuity, Hy. Green; 60 applicants. Section 6, Block II.: 185 acres, Kawhia South, lease in perpetuity, H. M. Litchmarsh; 54 applicants. Section 7, Block II.: 457 acres, Kawhia South, lease in perpetuity, Alf. Brown; 20 applicants. Section 2, Block XIV.: 334 acres, ICawhia North, lease in perpetuity, J. 11. Condon; 33 applicants. Section 3, Block XIV.: 473 acres, Kawhia North, lease in perpetuity, S. Wright; 10 applicants. Section 4, Block XIV.: 225 acres, Kawhia. North, lease in perpetuity. W. Hillyer; 45 applicants. Section 12, Block VI.: 996 a.-jres, Kawhia North, • lease in perpetuity, James Hill; 2 applicants. •

surveyed Selections.—Block VII.: 250 acres, Pirongia, occupation. . with right of purchase, A. 8. Ormsby; 3 applicants. Blocks VII. and X.: 640 acres, Whareorino, occupation with, right of purchase, C. E. MacCormick; 6 applicants. Blocks VII. ancl X.: 640 acres, Wliareorino, occupation with right of purchase P. Dufaur; 7 applicants. Block VII.: 640 acres,-Whareorino, occupation with right of purchase, Thos. Foley ; lb applicants. Block VII.: 640 acres. Whareorino, occupation with right of purchase, C. S. McKirmey; 15 applicants- Block III.: 1875 acres, Tutamoe, occupation with right of purchase, C. F. Ball; 17 ' applicants. Block IV.: 300 acres, Tutamoe, occupation with right of purchase, E. J. Penwarden; IV applicants. .Block VII.: 26G acres, Whareorino occupation with right of purchase, 11. J. Kelly; 17 applicants.

Surveyed Selections.—Section 6, Block X.: 272 acres, Orahiri, occupation with right of purchase, T. Hoi den; 32 applicants. Section 5, Block XV.: 122 acres, Mangamuka, occupation with right of purchase, Jane E. Gray; 2 applicants. Section 562: 48 acres, Te Papa, occupation with right of purchase, S. Brewster; 3 applicants. Sections 1, 2- and 3, Block IV.: 233 acres, Whang-ape, occupation with right of purchase, J. Maxwell; 3 applicants. Section 1, Block X.: 402 acres, Punakitere, occupation with right of purchase, D. McLennan; 8 applicants. Section 5, Block X.: 414 acres, Punakite'Pe, lease in. perpetuity, A. Manley; 4 applicants. Section 10, Block X.: 415 acres, Punakitere, lease in perpetuity, J. Stevenson; 4 applicants. ■ Unsurveyed Selections.— V.: 205 acres, Maungamangero, occupation, with right of purchase, J. Keson'; no ballot. Section 5, ] Block X.: 560 acres, Whareorino, occupation with right of purchase, W. Bletoch; no bal- I lot. Block X.: 320 acres, Whareorino, occu- • pation with right of purchase, It. Von Kletz- I ing; no ballot. Block X.: 300 acres, Whareo- 1 rin,o, occupation with right of purchase, Jas. Richards; no ballot. Block XI. 50 acres, Tutamoe, occupation with right of purchase, S. W. Ruddel; no ballot. .Block VII. 50 acres Pirongia, occupation with right of purchase, Hy. Yeates; 110 ballot. Block VII.: 300 acres, Pirongia, occupation with right of purchase. Julia Ahier; no ballot. Block XIII.: 640 acres, Maungamangero, occupation with right of purchase, Hy. Armstrong; no ballot. * Block V.: 200 acres, Whareorino, occupation with right of purchase. E. C. Gore; no ballot. Block III.: 200 acres, Tutamoe, lease in perpetuity. H. R. Ruddel; no ballot. Block XV.: 420 acres, Punakitere. lease in perpetuity H. R. Ruddel; no ballot. Block III'.: 200 acres Tutamoe, lease in perpetuity, H.' R. Rnd'del; no ballot. Block IX.: 640 acres, Maungamangero, occupation 1 with right of purchase, F. Perham; no ballot. Section 344: 150 acres, -Waimana, 'occupation with right, of purchase, J. B. Lee; n» ballot. . Sections 10 to 12, Block X.: 460 acres, Takahue, occupation with right of purchase. H. E. Back land; no ballot. Sections 14 to 21, Block IV.: 829. acres, _ Whangape. occupation with right of -purchase, J. E. Cooper; no ballot. Sections 281 to 284: 137 acres, Pirongia Parish, occupation with right of purchase,. H. F. Madsen; no ballot. Sections 143 to 146 : 200 acres. Pirongia. 11. Madsen: no ballot. Section 1, Block XIV.: 1462 acres, Kawhia South, lease in perpetuity. E. C. Stanley; no ballot. Section 13: 380 acres, Whangaroa. occupation with right of purchase, W. Gibbison; no ballot. - Section 13. Block VII.: 250 acres, Pirongia. lease in perpetuity, M. J. Graham; no ballot. 1