LAND ACQUIRED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 11, 14 August 1946, Page 7

LAND ACQUIRED

NEW SERVICEMEN SETTLE MENT

Apart from 214,000 acres previously held by the Crown and included in the servicemen settlement plans—part of which has already been allotted by ballot—a total of

237,398 acres had until the end of June been acquired under the provisions of the Small Farms Act (1932-33) for the establishment of ex-servicemen on the land, says a statement from the Rehabilitation Department. There was also 11,279 acres which had been taken under Part II of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, and three further properties acquired under Section 51 of the same legislation.

Recent acquisitions included 5671 acres previously the property of Viscount Doneraile, situated 34 miles south of Gisborne. Others were 2922 acres and 566 acres previously belonging to Messrs. A. E. Elworthy and J. C. Elworthy respectively, and about 1 miles from Timaru; 455 acres previously the property of Mr A. N. Gibbons, situated three miles from Morrinsville; and 250 acres j seven miles south of New Plymouth, previously the property of Mr W. T. Petersen.

Properties taken under Section 51 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act total 55,655 acres in area and are capable of sub-divi-

sion into 261 single units. - During June no fewer than 105 farm sections were ballotted for amongst ex-servicemen applicants, the properties being situated in al-

most every part of the Dominion