DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 24 February 1913, Page 5

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 24. A return to be presented to the Premier will give the following details of lands to be opened for settlement during March: North Island, 354 sections, comprising 75,618 acres, 49,737 of which are in the Auckland district, 16,364 in Hawke’s Bay, and 9453 in Wellington. South Island: 157 sections, comprising 85,816 acres, of which 10,912 are in Southland, and 9998 in Marlborough. The grand total for the dominion is 511 sections, comprising 161,434 acres. THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION. Timaru, February 23. The committee appointed by delegates of local bodies decided to recommend co-operation in fitting up a South Canterbury exhibit at Auckland, at a cost of £ISOO. THE SOUTH CANTERBURY HARVEST, Between two and three inches of rain has fallen during the last two days, which must have an injurious effect on the harvest. Much of the crop is still in the stook, and in many cases the stooks scattered by the gale ten days ago had not been re-stookod, and will be in a worse plight stijl, while the paddocks will be soft for the reaper when the standing corn is dry enough to harvest. On the other hand, the rain was needed for the turnips.