NELSON BACK COUNTRY.
THIRTY -F TVE THOUSAND ACRES THROWN OPEN. [Per Prkss Association.] NELSON, August 15. . The settlement of the back country of Nelson, which was locked up for seventeen years under the Railway Act, is now progressing very satisfactorily. Thirty-five thousand acres in Central Buller. including mid-Maruia, Rappahannock, Warwick and Tutaki, havo been thrown open, and a ballot took place at Murchison to-day. in tho presence of Mr Flaunagan, the Commissioner of Crown Land . Twenty-six thousand five hundred acres were taken up. while the probabilities are that the balance will be secured in the course of a few days by those disappointed at the ballot. The applications for the various .sections ranged in number from one to forty-eight, and as well as Nelson applicants there were settlei. from Taranaki. Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago. i _-____-_»__--__---—--—--
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9008, 15 August 1907, Page 2
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138NELSON BACK COUNTRY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9008, 15 August 1907, Page 2
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