LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
(Per United Press. Association.) .. WAN&ANUI, August 17. A land ballot .was. held yesterday by the Wellington Land Board • for 61 sections, comprising 31,000 aores, in the North Waimarino and South Taupo counties, 106 miles, up the Wan.ga.nui River, near the houseboat. Tho. land was offered under three tenures—cash,- lease in perpetuity, and occupancy with- Ihe right of purchase. The cash price ranged from £1 5s and £1 15s per acre. Thoro were many hundreds of applicants, as inanv as 264 for single sections, and 45 were allotted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13985, 19 August 1907, Page 6
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90LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13985, 19 August 1907, Page 6
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