The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1911. LAND HUNGER.
I.ami hunger is certainly net confined t.) New Zealand, and even in soi.iq of t!ii Australian States it is very much in evidence. According to a writer in “Dalgcty’s” there exists at this time in South Australia quc.-i an unparalleled demand for agricultural laud, and the land Hom'd is iusu'gcd by applicants for tiie allotment of blocks now available, The Board meets at different centres to receive evidence from those sending in formal applications, winding up its court proceedings in Adelaide. Recently the nnmhcr in attendance at the Crown Lands Office, to give evidence concerning offers for land in the Hundreds of Hooper and Marmion, on the lino of railway from Tailom Bend to Brown’s Well, was nearly four hundred, and after a stilling morning’s work it was decided to engage the Town Hall premises to ensure some comfort in conducting the proceedings. It is scarcely possible to take the ov Venco of more than fifty in one day, so that a whole week’s work was set. before the board to consider application. 1 in the particular localities indicated, which li j between the Murray Uiiclge and the Victorian border north of Pinaroo. So soon as these arc ar;ai!ce;i for, the Land Board will cuv-r I'jjon the (b-pnsal of North Boohnironic estate, t.eai the Burra, over a 1 undred miles northward from Adelaide. This comprises 112,000 acres of prime country, and there are 19C5 applications from nearly three hundred separate individuals. The custom is for applicants to select one block, lint as there may ho a hundred wanting the same sect ion, most •of the applicants put in for a second or third in order of choice. The land is allotted on terms which require personal residence, to prevent it being taken merely by speculators, and the hona-tider, of every applicant is carefully scanned by the members of the Land Board, who have bad many years’ experience in the business. _ Many more large blocks are rapidly being surveyed and railways pushed out to make these conveniently available, but- the rush by lamlseekers is ahead of the supply I continually, and the demand is quite unprecedented in the history of the State.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 4
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