CLOSER SETTLEMENT.
A SUCCESSFUL SALE. Press Association. ASHBURTON, Feb. 15. Nearly seven hundred farmers attended the subdivision of G. A. M. Buckley’s well-known Lagmohr estate/ in the Oddfellows’ iHall to-day. The land was offered in 29 blocks, and brought from £2 per acre for very poor country to £32 for heavy' rich land abutting .on Ashburton, the average price per acre being £9. Every section found a purchaser, bidding being very brisk, and the total amount realised amounted to £88,013. The prices obtained for the three highest sections were £32, £32, and £29 10s. for 315 acres, 350 acres, and 280 acres respectively. The respective purchasers were James Quigley, Tinwald, Samuel Holland, Tinwald, and Thomas AA’oollev, Heriot, Otago. The same land was offered to the Government about IS months ago at an average of over £2 per acre less than what was obtained to-day, at the end of a specially dry season.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2117, 17 February 1908, Page 2
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152CLOSER SETTLEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2117, 17 February 1908, Page 2
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