“I don’t like a man coming before the Board/’ said the Commissioner (Mr •Tames McKenzie) at a meeting of the Wellington Land Board, "with a view to trafficking in Crown land. Yon got a section,” he told an applicant for a transfer, "a year or so ago, after holding on to it for a few months you sold out at a rise. And now you want to do it again. You propose to take this land and lease it to somebody else. That is not the purpose of the Land Board. There is too little Crown land for that business nowadays.’" The application was refused.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19110811.2.10.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
105Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in