LAND SALES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12476, 1 March 1909, Page 4

LAND SALES.

. ■""-■■ Tiiharn, Feb .27. - : About one hundred persons attended the sale of five .-.South .Canterbury pastoral runs-; ' to-day '}■ The : Mount Peel acreages- created keen competi.tion...-::■ ..■ : ..::'^ j '-; : a-: -■-■ ' ; ;.-c- .'■" ■■■■": " : Ashburto'n, Feb 28.V Seven hundred farmers; attended the saleof tho' remaining portion- of the Sipririgfield- estate, at Methven. .The competition was- not" so keen as was anticipated. The prices ranged from £8, £10, £17, and £26 per acre. The total sum realised was £36,587. ,