Land Gambles
UNDER THE BALLOT SYSTEM. Per United Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 17. Tho Times says the ballot system is being deliberately used as a means of speculation, and gives an instance of a local tradesman who gave £1 18 for 817 acres under tho optional system, and in ten months sold it for £ll2O. At another ballot he was offered £6OO to transfer should he draw a certain section, but a speculative doctor secured it.
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Southland Times, Issue 10917, 18 April 1907, Page 2
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76Land Gambles Southland Times, Issue 10917, 18 April 1907, Page 2
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