NEW LAND DISTRICT
KING COUNTRY AGITATION CLOSER SETTLEMENT WANTED (Frmm Our Own Correspondent) TAUMARUNUL Tuesday. The Taumarunui Chamber of Commerce came to an important decision last evening, when it resolved to take steps, with the assistance of local bodies and the King Country Advancement League, to have a new land district formed in the King Country. iThe chamber has made a very thorough investigation of the position, and the decision has been arrived at in view of the fact that the three land commissioners for the districts concerned are too far away, and that the King Country needs specialised knowledge. Speaking the subject, the president, Mr. A. S. Laird, said they were now at a crucial stage, as a large amount of money would be borrowed during the next ten years, and it was necessary to see that it was diverted into the proper channels. An effort should be made to invite the Minister of Lands to the district to consider the whole matter as it affected the King Country.
Mr. L. Fauclielle said they wanted the best men on the land, and with proper treatment the country would respond as well as more favoured areas.
It was finally resolved to make an effort for the establishment of a new land district, which would embrace all the abandoned lands in the King Country*, with a resident commissioner and land board so constituted as to be qualified to administer the land peculiar to the central part x>£ the Island. Ono of the main planks of the new movement will be the necessity for closer settlement, particularly on those lands through which the Main Trunk line runs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 6
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275NEW LAND DISTRICT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 6
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