New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 51, 3 June 1916, Page 6

New Zealand

!ND P. SOCIETIES' ACTION. A.' and P. Associations of Cany " have decided to associate kves' witK the Agricultural Re- : Allies Committee of the Royal tltural Society of England, which m : formed/ under the patronage Kbfg, to assist agriculturalists lied ] countries which have • been it! and devastated: by German i.- It has been decided to' 'forth© following remit "to the annual ion Conference, to he held shortW#ngton:— : -"That the-A; and tsociatiohs of r the Dominion be to . start 'and to vigorously proI movement for- collecting-funds e settlement" on lands, of ruined n farmers, and that the Govern.be asked to subsidise any p collected^£ for £•" An appeal }po been'issued by circular to :» and pastoralist of Canter.LAND FOR SOI.OIERS. STATEW& ." ME NT. D. : J. Hughes, "New . Plymouth, receipt of ' the following letter the Minister for Defence (the Ja§ r AllenX:~- ~..—. - - " ffice of Minister of Defence, | Wellington, May 30, 1916. - ; Hughes I .Esq., , . ... !|i I Plymouth- • „.J :'• wMt^Wuti} was ! n Jf y " ';on the! 25th* of'April last.'you otited to me that" land .ought to •aside in Taranaki. for' returned . i%x soldiers. , The matter has. placed before. fcheßt.. Hon. the Minister; ahd 1 have received ■rt'as'follows:— ... ■''following areas of Crown land •tfriaki Land District have been mfed under Section 3 of the DisIharged ' Soldiers Settlement Act, |&ft,*«tft! aWn6w advertised'opeir for Selection by soldiers aiotefc the;prdinafy-provisions' of: tlie EwnJiAcfc; 190 B; ~ The" date of opening jftffcoftdfo Juhe 27, 1916, and the sale poster (No, 307) is.being; printed. Section 3 Block 111, Piopiotea WestfS-.D.y 234 acres; Section 8, Block XI, Mahbfe jrfret; Section .3/ Block ::jl, Mapara S.D., .346 acres; Section 11, Block VII- Omona.S.D.; 391 acres 2 s6cbr, Section 13, Block VII, Pouatu S.IX, 440 acres. A ; f V,ln addition; the Commissioner ,ot* hroKn Lands, New.Plymoutk, will• sV 'lect the larids most-suitable for settler merit by discharged men from time to {time as surveys are; completed, and ; schedule theni for proclamation under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement

Act, 1915. ,;■/■• ' lie: The survey of. an arufllof .3000 acres m Blocks IV, Pouatu S,IX, i: Waro S.Dj, isf nearly,' completed..- Jl)is aland = is. subdivided.. into three- sections Uand is situated ;about.3ix ; milesirom nthe route of the:proposed,,• Stratfoixl.Okahukura railway, There is aj 5 0.sqine. fair country under surveA m . Blocks . VII,< VIII, XI, S.J.;, and it is. anticipated dxat.fo.ur.ov h ( Ve •■sections of from .300-to 500. acres be ready: for offering: in the .springy ; ThercMs another block.of, about ,QOOO arces near Poro.o-taraD. tunnel . which- will be suitable.,for .discharged -, -men -and -the., sp-veyof another suitable area near Whangamomona,, has not yet been commenced. , .ult :tb difficult, ta fc T e £ ~-iland- inilba r£jnaj & iniL-jQiS> w iU^ * ~.^Yours( j faithfully, J. M^^ 1 /, Minister for" Defence: XU-L'- - , j j '