LAND TO BE OPENED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 12

LAND TO BE OPENED

BIG AREA NEAR ROTORUA CULTIVATION BY DEPARTMENT Special to THE SUK HAMILTON. Today. An area of 12,000 acres of educational reserve between, the Guthrie Settlement and Rotorua is to be cultivated by the Agricultural Department, and then thrown open for settlement. At Raglan last evening, the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. G. W. Forbes, said the object of the department was to subdivide the land into sections averaging 250 acres. Of this area 100 acres would be put down in grass before the section was allocated. A start would be made immediately on 2,300' acres.

The Department of Agriculture, added the Minister, would retain one section on which it would make grassing experiments that, it was hoped, would be of value to prospective settlers. It would be some time before the first of the sections would be available for settlers. There were at present between 90 and 100 sections available for selection in the Auckland Province, and the Lands Department was now in a position to advance up to £1,200 to assist settlers with their preliminary expenses.

MORE LAND BOUGHT PROPERTY AT WAERENGA From Our Own Correspondent. HAMILTON, Wednesday. The Government has purchased for closer settlement. 900 acres of land at Waerenga, 15 miles from Te Kauwhata, the property of Mr. J. Riddell, junr. The Lands Department will take possession on April 1. The commissioner of Crown lands, Mr. K. M. Graham, will visit the area on Friday and will arrange for the subdivision of the land into seven sections.