DEMAND FOR LAND. (From Our Own Correspondent. )
Wellington, April 20.
The scarcity of suitable Crown lands available for settlement in this district is becoming a matter of moment. The improved farm system it the popular system of taking up Government land, and at the present time the jL^nd Board has before it some 400 applications for land under this system. Many of these applicants have been waiting for months for land, and, as may well be imagined, are getting disgusted with the state cf things. ©Upon inquiry at the Lands department I was told that the land available for selection under the improved farm system at the present time is only coma 7500 acres, some of which is far from being of the beat quality. It is land which, for various reasons, has been given up by tbe pievioua holders. A ballot is to be t*k«-n for these sections shortly, but the waut» of the majority of the applicants will still rem.vin unsatisfied, and no special steps are apparently being made to do anything in the matter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 24
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