LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1067, 22 February 1913, Page 3

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

THE SHERENDEN ESTATE.

Government will place -.'2 "res of the Sherenden « .Lw-e P v. n-. the, market ~i- v. ■ ,k J- ~ »•«;» Applicants will have personally before the Land Board, Napier, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday next, 25th inst. The ballot will take place the day following. The Sherenden settlement is situated for the most part on both sides of the main Kastiugs-Patea road, an excellent metalled road. The property consists generally of open rolling country, with a little manuka in gullies, intersected by stream running in more or less deep gorges, some of which are stock-proof and used as boundaries. Approximately three fourths of the property is plougbable. The fencing is generally good post and wire, and natural stock proof gorges. All the sections, with the exception of two or three, are sufficiently fenced to hold stock immediately possession is given. A school site of five acres is reserved for the establishment of a school. It is distinctly stipulated that preference will be given to landless applicants who have .children dependent on them, or who have within the preceding two years been twice unsuccessful at former ballots.

There are altogether twenty-one sections to be offered, ranging in area from 373 acres to 696 acres. The half -yearly rental varies irom jC&9 to and the capital value from to per section.