Land Sales.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 166, 16 January 1896, Page 2

Land Sales.

The Lands Department is bringing out an illustrated descriptive pamphlet with reference to the Opouriao Estate in the Bay of Plenty district, which was bought by the Government some time since, and which has since been subdivided, and will be open for lease on perpetuity at Auckland on February 12th. The estate contains 6504 acres, and is situated near Whakatane, from which township the nearest part of it is distant six miles, and the furthest thirteen miles, up the Whakatane Valley. It is bounded on the east and south by the famous Urewera country. The communication with the township is formed by a well-formed, perfectly level, cart road, for the most part metalled ; bridges and culverts of a good class and in good repair. The laud is admirably adapted for maizegrowing, as has been amply proved by past experience, forty to eighty bushels to the acre being no uncommon yield. This season’s crop, taken from a place not far from the station, gives 80 bushels. The property has been subdivided into 44 sections, ranging from 60 to 300 acres, besides 15 smaller ones, from 6to 22 acres. A village of halfacre and one-acre sections, has been laid off in a central position near the junction of the Whakatane and the Waimana rivers, where three roads meet. Reserves for a school site and recreation ground adjoining the township have also been provided. A road is being constructed by Government from Rotorua via Teko to Whakatane, which, when completed, will he of great service to settlers in this district, as they will then be enabled to drive stock to Rotorua overland, and thence to Waikato and Auckland by rail. Possession will be given on March 2nd.—N.Z. Times.