LAND FOR SETTLERS
- *_ . FOUR BLOCKS PURCHASED. The Prime Minister announced on Saturday that tho Government had just, acquired a number of estates in different parts of tho Dominion which in the aggregate will provide more than forty holdings for settlement. Ono block of land at Waihou, in the Auckland district, containing 1658 acres, has been purchased from Mr. L. H. Otway. Tho land is all suitable for dairying, and will cut up into holdings of about ono hundred aores. Another purchaso is tho Gwavas Estate, near Tikpkino, in Hawke's Bay. It consists of 5942 acres, mostly sheep country. Two properties have been acquired ln ; Canterbury. An area of 2620 acres at Lee's Valley has been purchased from Mr. 11. Ensor, and a block of 2343. acres in tho same district has been bought from Mr. W. G. Rudd. Theso two purchases arc part of a scheme for improving and utilising a large area of Crown land in tho Oxford district, and will enable roading and subdivision to bo' carried out more effectively. Negotiations are in progress for the purchase of a numbor of other estates in various parts of tho Dominion.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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191LAND FOR SETTLERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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