SETTLING THE KING COUNTRY.
Lands to be Opened. A telegram from Wellington states that the Lands Department has just secured its absolute title to an area of 250,000 acres of native land in the Waitomo and WestTaupo districts, and it is to be cut up for settlement on the optional system without delay. The Commissioners of Crown Lands in Auckland and Taranaki have been instructed to put on ail their surveyors to cut up the area. The blocks have to be carefully explored to ascertain the best road routes, and arrangements will also have to be made to provide various means of access v through Native lands. In six months there should be a large number of onenines for sett]erjL___ jn this promising area, much c-r whicn is served by the North Island Main Trunk railway.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 128, 4 February 1909, Page 2
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136SETTLING THE KING COUNTRY. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 128, 4 February 1909, Page 2
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