A GLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE KING COUNTRY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 August 1901, Page 3

A GLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE KING COUNTRY.

(OUE OWN COBEBSPONDKNT.) Wellington, This Day. At yesterday’s meeting of the Education Board, Mr McCardle, now a settler in the King Country, expatiated in glowing tonne on the magnificent areas of land itCiUable for settlement in the districts

just south of Waikato. He assured his hearers there were many thousand acres of land in a virgin condition in that locality that merely required a reaper and a plough, the reaper to cut away the fern, and the plough to open up the soil—to convert them into splendid areas for cultivation. He was satisfiedthat Auckland had been asleep to her interests to allow these vast acreages to be unproductive for the last thirty years. He was satisfied that the sufficiency of cheap, good, land there, would satisfy the legitimate land-hunger of young New Zealand for a long time to come. Mr McCardle says that the land in the King Country, valued at 10s per acre, is as good as that being paid £5 per acre for by the Government under the Land for Settlements Act in other localities- He predicts great things for that part of the country in which he resides, when once the North Island Main Trunk Railway is an established institution.