OROUA DOWNS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 18 October 1889, Page 2

OROUA DOWNS.

(Cyntitiimtjott of pAtficnlars of file lajid for * Special provision,^aWutfQxmed has been made- agaiosf' exception^ ally high- floods alqpg he*e, by in.'C'UnlSn? hifif'- I '^a*itf in efttcK'ol the •s«e£ioris; ph th^fe;;^ ,tlje§e;farmg th^Ve*is a l^rge amount of flax, eridu»h to keep, two mills going con«tiotla>}3'i' i,here M ! 8 at* present oh .thisbbtakof 'flax' onry;^*dne mill at work, but before-' the sa)e the lease will have lapsed, so that the pufchaeer will\be enabled So fnake his own ternfe/ •■ ' ■■

; : Another block, i- or the ; ; continue, • tion bf (f ,hft <ne described, frdnts •Tie railway line beWeen tie Orouai bridge and : "t'ainesse. 'ihere ,are eighth Beckons ilier^ the $cak being excel ent, and xhey also contain a J^rg^aii^^^ livable tiftx, -' i . One. mare blpck remains to be noticed, as forming part of the fir.-t sale, and that is between Jones' line and Milt er's line, where ir. joins the Carnarvon estate opposite Mr Branken's place. Six sections have

been marked 6nt here, and the buyer* wil ony njjyj to erect division fenc^. Tha^Jand adjoins the very 'cl'eam^?|lS!^oarnarvon Estate, being mostly* flat land of unsurpassable fertility. y It may be m*entiogeji_iJiat on theJanJ to be solothere are now five flax mills working, three being one fstrippTsi('inullg,land I <h'e others twostripper, and on a large number of ■fche--Boctioß»*there •arg-smaU areas of flax. . Thepwners pi thes.e mi la iiow; -jfaf a rdyatiy'of filss& montk perstrippdrj antt Is ayrp'pjs, per acre 'foi' dryT^'grouna.' A^ tjijs rate th» buyer of : flax land would receivi> 10s 9d per day per stripper; while! the miller was cutting fi,Qm his land,, and equal t6 4s 4d per month per acre for drying ground, so that the buyer has a certaiuty of netting income from' the llax as we)l as .having spWdid land : '!' " %