"A LAND OF PROMISE."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 12

"A LAND OF PROMISE."

; STATE AID TO SETTLERS. Tho intimation which settlers received from: Mr. Wilson, M.P., to the effect that tho'-Gdve'rriment would provide cows for settlers who had sufficient grass for them, was./very welcome news, and no time was lost" : in applying . (says the King' Country correspondent of the Auckland "Herald"). The : Tangitu settlers can profit immediately, and the same may be said of the improved farm settlers on the Rangi,toto block. In the case of tlio latter much of 1 the land is open fern country, which ■has been.ploughed, fenced, and sown by the . aid: ot .Government money. Unless stock, are provided this newly-broken ground will come back to fern, and both labour and capital represented, in the improvement Will' be lost. At prcsont the Eangitoto country is looking in splendid heart, and a great futuro is ahead of the district in the shape of dairying. It is all easy, undulating country eminently suitable for close settlement, but a considerable expenditure for roading will have to be undertaken before the settlers will be able to work to advantage. A scheme which is being advocated locally is tho putting through' from Te Kuiti to Rotorua and Taupo respectively main roads for the purpose of opening up all the fine eastern country. At present the district is practically roadless, and to anyone acquainted with the fine country, which stretches for miles from the railway towards Taupo and Rotorda, the scheme must appeal strongly. A considerable amount of tho land is held by the Crown, some is held by Europeans from the Natives, -while a fair amount is still Native-owned virgin land.