PIAKO LANDS.
(Per Press Asaocdation.) Thames, last night. * Attention is being paid to the vast area ' of Piako lands, to be known as the Haus ' raki Plains. Several thousand aores are available for settlement, the total area ' being nearly a quarter of a million aores. • ~ Experiments conducted by Government on these lands in planting flax trres have been highly successful, the plants looking v< splendid. The Government are letting a ’ contraot for exoavation of a large canal of over a mile to drain a portion of the plain,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1735, 28 April 1906, Page 2
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