OROUA DOWNS ESTATE.

Manawatu Herald, 15 October 1889, Page 2

OROUA DOWNS ESTATE.

« Last week Colonel Gorton toojt a run through the sections that biave been suveyed lor sale and the .following description of the various

blocks is taken fwmi the report in the Advocate >— '•'■:. The land to be sold $& the first aucdon comprises three or Mr bl cks, the' tpaces belw'ean wkfoK. will be ptaced ort tli'e mftiifcdb knuietfiatelyufter fclfte" ftrslt sale. There are threft «tfcfclon3 to be sold on toe left oi the Awahuri-Longbum road, and with these tho auction wi 1 "probably W' opened. The first on list, No, 11, is a sample of most of land which is now being advertised, and, as its croppiug capabilities have beettti-iotl on ;a. small scale, it mny not Be aniiaa to «elfer particularly to it. It is fenaed and Bttb-diVided iv o fiy« paddocks, has Sfcftbles. stockyard dwelling hoUtfQ, etc., oa it, and is therefore toady for occnpation. It is now ia v\cb, deep grass, but the prolific 'nature of the soil way .be.infewp^irom the fact that thirtysix to;.is (36) of potatoes to the acre have 'been grown on it. We are aware *;Jiat tke fefcatement looks like romance, but we have J^fr Eeid's authority fo* it> and to alHhatkww iii^L Mr Reid.^B character is a suffi•cient gttftl^ntee of its truth. We <quo*a ttlso his statement and MrMcl^etttian's when we say that for a Barge part of the year it would fatten a bullock to the acre, and that it would carry thirteen sh»ep to the aero, but that such a largo number foul the grasß too much to allow of sheep being kept on it. Tho two adjoining sections are not so fully subdivided, and have no buildings on them; but the character of soil is exactly the same.