FOR CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1748, 13 May 1913, Page 4

FOR CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

TWO LARGE ESTATES PURCHASED. The Prime Minister (Ilie Hon. W. P. Massey) informed a Dominion reporter lust night that tho Government had completed the purchase of two huge ostatsa lor subdivision and .settlement, The land will he oll'cred, Jlr. Masi-cy stated, on renewable lease, wuh tile option to tlio tenant of acquiring the lrceiiold. One of tliu esia'Ts pui-ctacd is tlio well-known Jlillertuen J-Jslatc, in Jtarlborough, which is probably the largest block of land in the Dominion i>t!U in the occupation 01 Kuroptun«. The area of 111 a freehold is 75,U00 acres, end 88,000 acres of Crown leasehold are held alouif with the freehold. l ? or in any years (ho properly lias been administered by tho. Carter Trukkos, far whom Jlr. James I'ell has acted as manager of the station, Home legal formalities limy yet necessitate an application to tlic Supremo Court before the land can be Ir,-inferred. Tlia Mock is practically all sheep country, but it is, of course, capable of subdivision into a great many holdings. The other block is the Ardlnssn Station, at the northern end of Southland Province, not far from tlio township of Dalfour. Tho area is 0150 acres of freehold, and 10,000 acres of leasehold. The quality of tlio land in this estate varies from good agricultural land to fair sheep country.