LAND FOR SETTLEMENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8359, 20 February 1913, Page 7

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT

THE SHEEENDEN ESTATE. Tho Government will place 10,302 . lores of the Sherenden estate, Hawke’s jSJay, on the market next week for se--2 ectiou. Applicants will havo to apt ear personally before the Land Board, N npier, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday next, •I, »th inst. Tho ballot will take place tl 'O day following. .... Tho Sherenden settlement is situated for the most part on both sides of the i main Hastings-Patea road, an cveel,lent metalled road. The property con si sts generally of open rolling country, with a little manuka in gullies, interswmtcd by streams running in more or h as deep gorges, some of which are stoci i-proof and used as boundaries. Approx imately three-fourths of the proipert* r is ploughable. The fencing is 'gene* tally good post-and-wire, and 'natui ail stock-proof gorges. All the sectic ns, 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 th<> establishment of a school. It is distinctly stipulated that preference will be* given to landless applicants who ha vo children dependent on them or who have within the preceding two years b ten twice unsuccessful at former bal lots. There are altogether twenty-one sections to be offered, ranging in area from 373 acres to 696 acres. Tho halfyearly re trial varies from £69 to £l2O, and tho capital value from £3llO to {£5340 pci‘ section.