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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 328, 30 October 1875, Page 2

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Bay os Plenty Times Office, Friday afternoon. Mr Bedell, auctioneer, land agent, Ac., reports as follows:—“During the month of October there has been on improvement in business. Good dairy cows have changed hand* freely at excellent prices* All kinds of household furniture, kitchen utensils, &c., have sold well. Medium draught horses and hacks realised fair prices. Maize has sold freely at 6a per bushel for good sample. There are plenty of potatoes for present requirements at 7s Od per cwfc. Inquiries for land still continue. Several farms have changed hands since ray last report at remunerative prices. Town lota are anxiously sought after, and have changed ©wrung at 100 per cent, advance on prices quoted two years since. It would be to the advancement of this district if the Government was requested to offer for sale isolated blocks of laud situated in the parishes of Te Papa, Te Puna, and Te Apata at fair value. Between the Wairaapu and Wairoa Rivers, from Bidding’s to Oropi, and from Captain Tovey's farm to Pangaroa there are blocks of Government land (a large part of which is awampy) which, if offered for sale at 5s to 10s per acre, would sell, and present owners of adjacent farms, as well as others, would purchase and be likely to improve the land at onee. At Te Puna there is one block of 700 f;a and numerous others; also at To Apata there are some two thousand acres, a large portion of this is inferior land, however, and 5s per acre would be quite enough for it. In the township of Te Puna not one lot has yet been offered, although it was surveyed a number of years ago. Close to the bush at Te Puna there is also some really good land, and the sooner it is offered the better.