CROWN LANDS SALE.

Waikato Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2627, 30 April 1904, Page 2

CROWN LANDS SALE.

NEARLY 6000 ACRES DISPOSED OF At the Auckland Lrown Lands Office on Thursday some 38 sections, comprising 7639 acres of first and secoud-class surveyed laud in the Orahira survey district, county of Kawhia, were offered for selection under the optional terms of the Land Ace, subject to tbe provisions of the Bush and Crown Lands Settlement Act ot last session. Mr Gerhard Mueller, Commissioner of Crown Lands, conducted the ballot. Thirty-two saotions, eomprisiug 5854 acres, were disposed of, and the remaining six sections will remain open for selection at the upset prices and rentals. The number of applications received was 261. the highest number received for a single section being 74. The following are the successlul applicants under the occupation with right of purchase clauses : Seotion 10 Block VII., area 236 acres, number of applicants 42, M. MoGrath; section 2, Block Vll , area 217, number of applicants 16, A. Watts; section 3, Block VII., area 294, number of applicants 8, W Unsworth ; section 11, Block VTI., area 227, number of applicants 16, R. F. Gregg; section 6, Block VII., area 246, number of applicantu 78, J. Creau ; sections 8 and 9, Block 111., area 554, number of applicants 4, F. H. Simms ; section 9, Block VII , area 320, number of applicants 26, A. Gill; seotion 12, Block 111., area 346,1 number of appli cants 4, C. Cater : section 6, Block IV., area 201, number of applicants 2, F VVindeler; seoiion 7, Blocs. IV., area 126, number of applicants 8, L. Tansey ; section 9, Block IV., area 86, number of applicants 24) C. J. Johnson ; section 10, Block IV., area 17, number of applicants 8, G. Patterson; section 12, Block. IV., area 20, number of applicants 8, S. A. Cater; section 11, Block IV., area 26, number of applicants 17, B. Gill; section 15, Block IV., >,rea 20, number of applicants 5, A. B. Collier; seotion 5, Block VII., area 350, number ot applicants 74, W. Mooney; section 7, Blook VII., area 250, number of applicants 19, 13. Brennan ; section 13, Block VII., area 179, number of applicants 57, W. Edwards ; seotion 2a, Blook VIII., area 208, number of applicants 6, O. White; sections 3a and 4a, Block VIII., oreo 554, number of applicants 18, R. M. Sefton ; seotion sa, Block VIIL, area 197, cumber of applicants 5, A. Brodie; section Ba, Block VIII., area 288, number of applicants 23, A. S. Board ; section 8, Bltok IV., area 182, number of applicants 2, M. Tansey. The following were the applicants who obtained sections under the lease in perpetuity system :—Sections 13 and 16, Block IV., 18 acres, 20 applicants, V. S. Gill j sections 14 and 17, Block IV., 19 acres, 3 applicants, J. Hiley ; section 16, Block VII., 279 acres, 18 applicants, M. V/eller. Section 15, of Block VII., 307 acres, 5 applications, fell to J, VV. Ellis under the cash system.