LANDS FOE SELECTION.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 November 1911, Page 3

LANDS FOE SELECTION.

The areas of land opened for selection in the Dominion for the month of November tots up to 32,057 acres. On the 27th of this month, 76 sections of the Eccleston No. 2 settlement will be offered for renewable lease, also other lots in Hetana Hamlet, Waari Hamlet, and Selwyn Settlement. Some 5707 acres of second class land in the Ohinemuri and Aroha survey districts, also 3133 acres, Okura Parish, and 3557 acres in Waioeka and Urutawa survey districts, are also offered, Other lots are 1006 acres Rotprua and Waihou, 2621 acrfis. Piako and Waiasu parishes, and 10,562 acres Urutawa and Motu West survey districts.

BM9S^^^^^^^^^^^vNoi'th Island at ■ safe to • estimater^ffllß^^^^Bi of this area is of native lana^Pfot such one-fifth 18 on unoccupiecf native lande, The bulk.of the unoccupied lands is in the Urewera eountrj', Taupo 1 Thermal Springs district, inland from Paverty Bay, Cape Eunnaway and East Cape, "Upper Whangarei, inland from Patea, near the Kuahine Eanges. and North Auckland. They are mainly, therefore, in those portions that are difficult of access. Those, therefore, that speak of the huge areas of unoccupied native lands will do well to remember that of these v unoccupied lands, nearly two -thirds are massed in a part of the of tli9 North Island generally regarded as unfit for settlement, except in ldrge areas as small grazing runs or pastoral runs. / The remaining unoccupied lands ware held on 31st March. 1911. thus; By trustees for settlement 871,595 acres, under negotiation with Crown 430,560, balance ' Urewera reserve £00,000, uninvestigated Panatunu ] 90,792.0bher lands 987,916- total 3,080,863 acres.

Mills wants the Useful People of New Zealand to unite, not only to g<?t political control and insist that the working man shall get a larger share of the things he produces, tut also that the children* shall get such educational advantages that in years to come they will be able to stand "breast high with the '■superior classes." Knowledge is power. The world is ruled by ■ the competents — the men who know how. Capital has won all its victories because it has been-able to Buy the Biains. Have you ever thought of that? Mills has. That is one of the reasons why he wants the workers to unite.