LAND FOR CLOSER SETTLEMENT

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 63

LAND FOR CLOSER SETTLEMENT

AGITATION AT HAKATARAMEA. ' (From Our Own Correspondent.) \ OAMARU, February 21 r } At a meeting held at Hakataramea last 1 night in regard to <|be resumption of th« i Land Company's estates for closer settled meat, Sir. W. J. Steward and Messrs Dun) can and Macpherson, M.P.'s, were present, /The proceedings were enthusiastic. -A resolution was carried — " That it is cmi' nently desirable that the Government acquire for close settlement the freehold estate at Hakataramea of the New ZeaV land' and ' Australian Land Company of 52,000 acres, and the various leasehold pro? parties associated therewith," The thre^ parliamentary ■ members present were appointed, with other parliamentary repre^ sentativee of {he district interested, to forward the resolution to Wellington anoS to support die proposal to the best of theiij abilities. . 'A 'Wellington man advertised that h» would give away a quarter-acre section of the Dominion Estate to the ni%c iady or, gentleman who would build, thereupon a' six-roomed dwelling. No gentleman offered to take the section, but a fourteen-year-old', lassie induced her father to accept the offer on her behalf, and the kind-owner has acquiesced. '