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NOT FOR GUM-DIGGING AWANUI AREA TO BE OPENED (TBS SUSS Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. According to the answer given by the Minister of Lands, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, to a question by Captain H. M. Rushworth (Bay of Islands) In the House of Representatives this afternoon. an area of land north of Awanui is to be opened for settlement.
Captain Rusbworth asked the Minister whether he would give favourable consideration to the repeated requests of the kauri-gum diggers that that land, comprising some 3,000 acres, north of Awanui, recently held by the Peat Oils Company. Ltd., on lease from the Crown, should now be thrown open to diggers on the—usual conditions. *
"The possibility of eventually utilising the area referred to for settlement purposes and other reasons,” replied the Minister, “make it undesirable to open It for ordinary and promiscuous gum-digging, as such operations make the land unfit for farming purposes. However, portiou of the land had been subdivided into three-acre lots and made available for selection on payment of an annual rent, and there is an ample area of other land in that locality available for ordinary gum-digging."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 7
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191FOR SETTLEMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 7
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