LAND FOR THE LANDLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6962, 30 October 1909, Page 8

LAND FOR THE LANDLES

MPROVKD FARM SrTTTLI'TM !•;>,"[>■. "HL'Kir for siocrro'NS. The. improved farm sect ions available tor liiiidlc.'s married men gonerrillv along Hi,. North Lland .Main Trim': railway line wore ba I !->t ( d for vo.'.tcrdny at. th.. District L'lnds Office] ■ Wellington. Thorc- wit;.- lii'J ,t.plications for 102 srcl.ioiiK in Hit.. ihmua ami Kiiil.i"l:o survey districts, situated bo- '/»('( n j:;niriinii iiii'l l'irial;a, and varying in area, from .",0 acres to i!00 .•wires, chiefly r.-rc-i-clad, but a few stations comprise fern and scrub country. All!ioii»! t applitntwns weie invited from suitaMo hindlc,;-; married mon, r.pcehll p-'iWcr w.i'; i:iven 1 ir preference to a;ii)!ieniir>n-- from retrenched civil servants, workers dispensed with during the last twelve- months from tho Main Trunk railway line and Government road works, and from other suitable married men out of employment and without iiiueli ca'pital. 'the' regulations provide for advance.'; for provements'J'he Commissioner of Crown Lands. Mr James Mackenzie, explained to l.hc applicants. o~A\ of whom rind completed their applications, that this ballot was different to the' ordinary ballots jit. was not a ballot to which all wore ■ eligible, but the object was really to nwiist. persons who could not :;el land in the ordinary way, and the Land Board had to mako a very careful stlection, not that- the reject-pel were not probably just as good as those solooted, but the board'had to first consider the applicants it was best to help. He pointed out that, every applicant .was allowed one mouth ir. which to go and look at his section, and if he did not like it, then he need not en on it. ff he (the Commissioner) did not hear from the applicant during that period, the section would probably •!}•> forfeited, and allotted to someone else who .was not successful at tho original ballot. Following are tho results of the ballot:— JITJXT/A. Block I.

BALLOT AT TAUMARUXUI. Tho Taranaki Land Board met at Tnumarunui on the 26th inst., and after a personal examination of applicants for sections in tho Mapara, Tangitu and Aria survey districts, opened for jdJotment under . improved farm regulations recently issued, the Commissioner of Crown Lands conducted n, ballot in the presence of tho Land Board, amongst tho married landless applicants. Tho available sections Burveyod into areas Tarying generally from 150 to 200 acres nero allotted to eighty-eight married men, which, with their wires and families, will mean the early settlement of a considerable j

number of persons on tho land hi this locality. The land at present is accessible, by tracks both from Waimoha railway station, and tho WaimohaOngarue road, and is distant from eight to sixteen miles from Waimoha. These, tracks wiJI in the ordinary course bo formed into bridlo and cart roads. Tho land generally is of a very good class, and is mostly covered with forest, with patches of fern and grass, and should when brought into cultivation prove very suitable for dairying and other farmin.EC pursuits. Tho liveliest interest was taken in tho proceedings by the large numhor of applicants present, and thoso fort una to enough to obtain sections expressed their satisfaction in n very decided manner.

It was only in August last thai the surveys wore commenced of two blocks for the settlement of persons on lands under tho regulations above reforrcd to, and since that [lnto 19.921 acres comprising 121 sections hare been provisionally surveyed, tho roads located, and the jpections all allotted. The total number of applications dealt with was 316. and wcro received from all parts of tho Dominion.

,i Section. A .. 3 4 180 170 1H0CK 11. James W. Dliric, Hawera W. T,. A. McArtliur. Wellinirto .. 2 200 200 ist'c .. 5 .. 8 .. 9 h 3 ItobBrt Dowlinn. Kaetiu Alex. Dcito, Oliukiin-! . Julius Barry, ATatapmi Block I\ Jtichaxd A. Woodhead. Chi 175 170 170 200 Block t Gilbert McAlpine, Tauma James Grace, Winiata .. John T. Taylor. Welling! Thomas Tracery. Dunoll David Shaw. Paroora .. rann on . io . i 3 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 200 2W 2C0 200 155 Alfred I>. Kays, i>evin ... Oeoreo Uunt. Wellington . Itobert Cleaver. Taihapo . 8 . 9 . 10 60 76 50 D. J. J. Creech, Wellington . . 11 93 Francis B. Hanghoy, Masterto l 13 70 George N. Poulson, Oliutu . . 13 70 William Taylor, Petono . 14 70 Block VI. . 5 . . 5a 68 James Atkinson. Wellington . . 7 08 Fred. Reynolds, Dunedin . 9 too J. Bacon, Otorohanga. . 10 100 Herbert 0. Hunter, Mnrtou . . 11 100 U. H. Wallace. Maagaweka . . 26 too !W. Lang, Greytown North . . 27 100 . Block IX. TV. Grocn, Petono . 8 m W. Wyatt, Kilbirnio ... 9 03 A. J. Alillyn, Taumaranui . 90 C Pittams, Mataroa . 11 94 TV. D. Brown, Midhurat... . 12 60 J. Iikwsoii, Kakahi . 13 74 J. Bones, "Dtiku ... . 14 54 B. McDonald. Koeka ... 20 J. Pattilo, Patca 16 1 46 il. "Watt, Dannovirke ... . 17 1 10 J. Stobart, Wellington 18 1 20 T. H. Eobinaon, Taihapo 19 1 00 C. So toil, Gladstone 20 " 1 00 J. B. Marshall, Johnsonvilla .. 21 1 30 IB. J. Ealph, Shannon 23 1 50 H. Bromloy. Wellington 23 • 1 90 J. B. Darey, Hukanni " 24 1 70 A. Cameron, Maranui 25 ■ 1 70 E. Collott, Hukanui 26 1 61 Block X. S. Morris, Mataroa 3 1 20 T. Fearce. Foiton 4 1 20 J. Thompson, Kawatau 5 1 20 TV. 1*. Harper, Silverhopo .. 6' 1 10 JR.. Curtis, Manunui 7 1 33 T. Wainwright, Kaiwarra 8 1 03 A. Naylor, Utiku ... •ton 9 1 14 1 DO 55 E. Allen. Marton 21 R. J. Spiers, Flaxbourno 22 1 42 P. Real. JVerwtOTvn 23 1 21 J. P. Ward. Gisborno 24 1 DO B. B. Johnson, Wellington .. 25 1 :a. 31. Krabs. Pending 26 1 10 JR. C. Hushes, Kakahi 27 1 X). O. Sanson, Sandon 28 1 0 W. c. Miller, Piriaka 30 1 X) It. Betaey, Louver Hutfc 31 1 0 J. StcLood. Owhango ... 33 1 a W. E. Flynn, Ohakune 33 1 J. Fry. Lower Hutt 34 1 K. mil, Taihapo 36 u F. B. Parker. Taumaranui ... 37 1. T. M. Pecar. Auckland 39 i; a C. J. Brown. Pnckakariki 40 i « J. O'Donnell, 43 13 KAITTEKE. Block III. 3 0 20 16 21 12 PffffiflfflfflWrl

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