NATIVE LANDS

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 157, 20 May 1909, Page 5

NATIVE LANDS

Opening For Settlement The ftrat step towards adopting the recannendations of the Native Land Coamfcaion has been taken by the Government by the gazetting of a large pnost of Native owned land in the £ing Country as being brought under of Part One of the NaSettlement Act. 1907. The Art pruymw chat «*y rtatfiat is n*>t required to* ««• W-T ffln loy tlw Native owners may be available for sale or leasing, aSecetd reaches a total of c ao r 000 acres, the different blocks fanraig' in area from test* than 50 'i The blocks pre scattered throughout tne district, |KW t||e ptfpui to ppgwme o© aide of the f»i|w»y, and Ssoro to Awakino on the western •We. A considerable portion of the Rangiblock is affpdid and the ot*oif>B Wtf# **«. ' witu the tJfOMro lands in |he same locality, should work a radical change in the conditions of the country oo the eastern side of the railway from Onagrue to Otorohanga. Practically everything in the way of roading the blocks has yet to he done,,and it must be a considerable time before the actual work of settlement can proceed. However, m soon aa the country can be opened, 'fill N a strcng j aM 'the • producing poarnr' of tte'distviat wlil he increased to a won* (Jarful extant. Such knowledge aa tbia should inspire the Government to promt* a vigorooa roading policy, and as much of the country Is suitable for close nettlement the prospects of the whole district and of the country in general will be greatly enhanced in IVOViVMDR*