A New Departure In Settlement.

Manawatu Herald, 5 December 1896, Page 2

A New Departure In Settlement.

■» It appears that a somewhat novel departure is about to be taken in New Zealand settlement. The pas* sengers by the Rimutaka, which left London on the 16th October, and is due in Wellington to-morrow night, include a party of intending settlers under the leadership of Mr Philip Perry, who was for gome time a resident in Auckland, but formerly was with Mr John Grigg on the latter gentleman's celebrated farm at Longbeach, Canterbury. Mr Perry has, says the Christchurch Prets, been engaged latterly in connection with the management of the Colonial Training College at Hollesley Bay, Norfolk, and has been so impressed with the merits and advantages of that admirable institution that he desires to reproduce it at the Antipodes. With this view he has undertaken the charge and leadership. of a party of 15 young men, all well born and possessing a considerable amount of capital, and also strongly backed by moneyed relative?, The schema is to start a model farm and a training college in New Zealand, where the young men will remain and work and learn colonial ways, manners, and customs for two or three years, after which probably they may choose to settle for themselves on separate properties. Their destina* lion is the Auckland Province, and if possible their intendtd estate will ba secured somewhere in the Waikato district. They have been for soma i.ime in treaty with the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company for the Mutau property, but the price asked was higher than Mr Perry felt warlanttd iq paying. The negotiations, we believe, finally fell through, and Mr Perry has either secured a suitable piece of land in the Waikato district, or has the virtual certainty of beiug able to do bo on his arrival. It remains to be seen how the scheme works out, but it oartainly appears to have all the advantages of a good start. — Post