FORTY YEARS AGO
OPENING UP OF THE PLAINS CLAIM FROM PENINSULA NOT FOR LAND SPECULATORS (From the Ohinemuri Gazette of May I*-, 19’3) We certainly endorse the action of the County Council in approving of Mr Gheal’s idea to ask the Government to put aside a portion of the Piako swamp for residents of the Hauraki Peninsula. Many people in this district have been waiting for years to obtain a portion of this ground to settle on and these are the people who will take up the land to cultivate it and not for the purposes of speculation. There will be plenty of land left for people from other parts of the colony if they care to come here and stay, but we consider that those people in the vicinity of the Piako Swamp should not, have to compete for sections with the people from all over the colony. We do not know upon what terms the Government proposes offering, the land-pur-chase, lease in perpetuity, or lease with right of purchase—but we hope that whatever the terms are, the land will be taken up by those people who will work it and not by land speculators.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 6
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196FORTY YEARS AGO Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 6
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