LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 4

LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT.

■ 62,700 ACRES TO BE OPENED UP. IN WELLINGTON DISTRICT. ■ 'It '■. is ; very '/seldom V indeed ... that-; sucH . largehand .laiids.as; those'that Mr./ Mackenzie, ;• Commissioner 'Of; Croivn. Lands,' brought : be-' fore, yesterdayls .board, are dealt, with at :•{ .'; .biie'/ sitting.;/; -. Tlielaud.; isfor.. ordinary; close ..settlement,* :and comprises no/fewer ;■; in areaj froni/;': 9G' acres 'to. 2755 acres.', / Included.: "in these ' is l tho -area of about' 10,000 acres lii AYai-... ■ totard;:Vaileyj■'a'/considerable portion of " which/was cleared/ih/.the .winter months . ■ by ,th'e . unemployed, and . the : land ' only "/' ■.., 'how: iwaits being"fired ; \td'" lay."it -down ;■ in. grass; '■ This area is .well adapted/for- ;' v mixed' farming; . Most/of •; the';, section!/;;, hive a frontage to' the Waitotara' River,',:.•/• / navigable, for launches.,;; ; .':■/Another "area" if dbb'ut;36s3 acres lies";to tho' southward of/Ateud^bn;.the 'Wang> :, - ,\ : nui River, whilst'tho' largest ; block of ; all is/ in' &utK^Wofi^tih6;^!>ib!ftKwhMi' i .. ; bf':.>.. t '-' Raetihi, 'and/'towar(k:tho:'Rctto leyj comprising 35,184' acres.'; The ; bulk of these ' lands,',:wliichi ( 4ro ./into s v about" O2..sections', ; rw'.gihg. from : 86/aores.,; :tb" 1317 .acres;' are ' fit : present./forcst-clad. but when cleared Will be well adapted ■'■■'■ for sheep, tarid "cattle" raising," and .as:,timi;' ;• : goes 011-110 dohbt portions:will/ultimately; ■;: be found suitable, for : dairying.These ■ lands. will/ bo' : :offered .at .Wanganui;-.and Raetihi /respectively.' ;) ",-/:; A-;' \r ; .' Tho -towii-and'snburbaii areas .being.,of- : fered: "by' 'auction- for; cash comprise 422 -'• . sections,"':situated in . thoiimportant ' ceh-.r:■■•'? tres. along: the North' Island . Main!' Trunk,;; 'railway lnie,: which/will :for'ni;tho.nucleus '/ ;.; of our "inland'': toivns 'in years;to come.-' ;At ;present,";as: thb;; ; commissioner s/ex- ; :■;- '.•■ plained, the'iibjCct is twofold; l'irst, the . . purely. building . lots ', are offered so:-,that; / ;•'.■, businossmen. can ,getVanV.bpportuiiity,'.of' locatiug. themselves/in jiosiCions.:conveni- •.:■. ent for -, trade- in the; new country ' which //.' . . ' the' completion"; of,-/the; inspired'- with v lifc; while the lafger.ylots • are • offered; inore; for" the' convcnicnce of ; settlers, -now ocbupying: back-hlock-farms,;.: who may waiit' pa'ildoclc - accommodation ..;/": hud depots fori their .stock whilst" in tran-. ■"./ '.: sit nearitho"embryo;townships and".rail- . .. .'way stations aloiig-'thb: i-outo of the great '; railway/highway. ; ii ; These.. 'special V/lotj-j will" be;a'uctioned..by the :commissionerAat ; ■: Ohakunfc and Ranrimu' towards tho' end;.; of next inontii; - - ";/ ...;/;' V.OtKir/lands/ixlso "being: opened.;before., ' ,'j Jlarch-31 will be as followlpts oi"open J grass' land; :in.'Rimutaka' ; "State//Forest/" ; :,; (near railway lint), 7253 "acresj.'runi'3l; . -'/ / j Knribi, 17C0 acrps j Hawtrey Settlement,. - ;/; Johnsbnville, ; at reduced rents, 151 acres; : ; : various : .lotS ;in'.Riiahiuo :-:Jlaungii-'. ;i .karetu , Surv'ey.'Disfrict,:. making .aii area " : i includin's ' the; blocks ' ptdvioilslj'/'./ffibn-'. v. v '-: tioncd.'-.aggi-egating" 62,700 acres. t/' - "../ 0.. / v v : : ; ;-j