The Kmohaku Village Settlement.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 275, 7 September 1906, Page 2

The Kmohaku Village Settlement.

Extract from the Auckland Commissioner of Crown Lauds report up to the end of March, 1906 : “ Kinobaku Village Settlement.—Thie ia a settlement held under the villiago-home-st-ead lease -in-perpetuity system. The set tiers are making very satisfactory progress, a total or twenty-three of the twenty -seven selectors having their permanent homes on the land. They have an area of 348 acres cultivated, and their improvements are valued at £870." 848 acres being under cultivation and 28 settlers with permanent homes thereon ! About 12f acaes each sec tion I Marvellous I We are distinctly of tbe opinion that we could find fully half-a-dozen that have not seen their sections and are never likely to, and regret to baye to say th%t the 28 who have permanent homes on their sections' exist in th» imagination of tbe Crown Lands officers. The principal reason of thia is that the promise that tbe settiers should have a road within two years has not at present (just the end of the third year) been fulfilled, and if we are to take the present rate of progress it will take another seven years to get even a 6ft. track. Ibis is what the Commissioner terms “ satisfactory progress.” We, ae well as others, would call it by a different name entirely.