Settlement Lands.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11, 4 May 1914, Page 5

Settlement Lands.

—— GOVERNMENT PURCHASES. FORTY MORE HOLDINGS. [Per Press .Association.] Wellington,' May 1. The Prime Minister (Hon. VV. h. Massey) announced on Saturday that the Government had just acquired a number of estates in different parts of the Dominion, which in the aggregate will provide more than forty holdings for settlement. One block of land at Waihou in the Auckland district, containing 1658 acres, has been purchased from Mr L. H. Otway. The land is all suitable for dairying, and will cut up into holdings of about 100 acres. Another purchase is Gwavas Estate, near Tikokino, in Ilawkes Bay. It consists of 5951 acres, being mostly sheep country. Two properties have been acquired in Canterbury. An area of 2620 acres at Lees Valley has been purchased from Mr H. Ensor, and‘a block of 2343 acres in the same district has been bought from Mr W. G. Rudd. These two purchases are part of a scheme for improving and utilising a large area of Crown Land in the Oxford district, and will enable reading and subdivision to be carried out more effectively. Negotiations are in progress for the purchase of a number of other estates in various parts of the Dominion.