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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1978, 17 May 1919, Page 1

A further development in the Mackenzie Country is understood to be the proposed subdivison of 80,000 acres of Crown land into four grazing runs, to be thrown open for selection by returned soldiers (says the Christchurch Sun). There are several other Canterbury settlements which will be made available for soldiers shortly, notably a block of approximately 800 acres at Orari, the area of the Coldstream Estate which was purchased, and the recently-acquired 200 acres at Fendalton, the last-named of which is intended for fruit and poultry farms. Single sections in the Honiebrook and Leeston sections are to be balloted for in about a month’s time. Applications close this month for the Snowdale grazing run leases, too. Without fiat wintering country, as it is, the Snowdale proposition is largely a gamble, but the gambling spirit is said to be strong in the soldier, so that there will probably be plenty ready to risk the bad winters with the good.