OUR LAND LAWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 11 March 1908, Page 5

OUR LAND LAWS.

FIRST BALLOT UNDER THF AMENDMENT ACT.

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LAND FOR THE LANDLESS,

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TV, « \ AUCKLAND, March 3.0. Ihe first ballot under the new L*i;<l .Laws Amendment Act was held V c the Auckland Lands Office this afteiion! Jw'?r imiSSl(i]?: er (Mr- McKenrie) JsaicT this was the first important; ballot: ™Sim? Ua7 Act > and the applicantswee al llandless He looked upon this ballot as entirely one for the landless people and only those who really needbalJt nCLTI°? d mtiti As *£** the ballot had been : postponed to allow Wd authorities to discover which applicants tow-entitled to; preferenco Vn??gt grounds of being landless.' Out of 21 ■ applicants forgone section, no less thanlb had been thrown out becau-« they already possessed land, thus leav'ri^ Si ye e^S^landless^pplicaLits: Out of over 500 : wh» t had put; in for ihe' different sections there had only.been one obnectwn- raised to the postfc vue ment of t! le ballot. The ballot^AS, proceeded with. > " : ; :';