Te Whitiatara Block Norsewood Land Ballot 19 June 1912
NORSEWOOD is situated east of the Ruahine Mountain range and is located 20 kilometres northeast of Dannevirke. Norsewood was founded by Scandinavian settlers in 1872 as a loggers settlement
Norsewood-Te Whiti settlement (the correct name is Te Whiti-atara) was bought from the Maori by the Government, surveyed into sections and balloted for, on the 19th June 1912
22 June 1912 DANNEVIRKE, last night
... A ballot was held at Norsewood today for 17 sections of the Te Whititara block.
There were 395 applications, the sections ranging from 64 acres to 100 acres.
the results were:
(in section number order at link - placed here in name alphabetical order)
L. G. BAINS, Ormondville - section 18
John A. BANNIN, Tariki, Taranaki - section 186
Susannah BERKAHU, Makotuku - section 196
William L. BERTHIN (?), Dannevirke - section 193
John CONSIDINE, Te Uri, Ormondville - section 195
Rose DAHLBERG (1880-1972), Te Rehunga - section 182
Mrs HARNETT, Escrett, Napier - section 190
Andrew LAWRENCE (1887-1965), Wanganui - section 180
Cornelius Richard MURPHY, Kuangaroa, Fordell - section 192
John MURRAY, Fordell - section 189
Mary G. NICHOLSON, Gisborne - section 183
Samuel James NOBLE, Waikohu, Gisborne - section 198
- served in WWI as Rifleman 25/223 with NZEF, 3rd Battalion, B Company. KILLED IN ACTION,Somme, France 15 Sep 1915. Next of kin, his wife, Jane Emma (BRADLY) in Tahataka, Northern Wairoa
Thomas SMITH, Ormondville - section 200
Timothy Augustus TEAHAN (1878-1958), Masterton - section 194
James Robert THOMPSON (1878-1939), Waipukurau - section 181
Margaret TUOHY, Hastings - section 18
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