SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 141001, 20 April 1920, Page 6

SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

A GISBORNE BALLOT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, / Mondjay. The soldiers’ ballot for tho Repongaere estate was held to-day. There were .114 applicants from various parts of the Dominion. Mr Marsh (Commissioner of Crown Lands), in addressing the applicants, said that on Repongaere there were three classes of /land. Four sections were essentially sheep country, two were adaptable to.mixed farming, and the remainder were suitable for eloso settlement. A coincidence occurred during the drawings, two brothers from Waimate each securing sections. The following was the result of the ballot: —• Section 1 (50 applicants), 53 acres, L. J. Burridge, Gisbo ( rne; section 2 (45 applicants), 50 acres, A. T. Waddell, Te Awamutu; section 3 (46 applicants) )R. Cameron, Maknuri; section 4 (08 applicants), 72 acres, J. J Hogan, Waimate; sections 5 and 7 together (30 applicants), 78 acres, F. Stewart, Waingake; section 6 (48 applicants), 93 acres, H. M. Thompson; section 8 (40 applicants), 151 acres, 11. A. Griffiths, Hastings; section '8 (40 applicants), 42acres, E. W. Wilson, Gisborne; section 10 (26 applicants), 412 acres, M. J. Hogan, Waimate; section 11 (27 applicants), 448 acres, D. Campbell, Hastings; section 12 (28 applicants), 454 acres, J. D. Maekie, Woodvillo.