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PROPOSAL TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT i KING COUNTRY DISCUSSION Prom Our Own Correspondent TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. A large meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce last night discussed the question of land settlement in the Central King Country. The Mayor, Mr. C. A. Boles, said the question of financing the farmer was most important, and the big problem in the King Country was the large areas of land held and not farmed. Information from the Crown Land Commissioners at Wellington and New Plymouth indicated that little Crown land was now available in the district. The meeting resolved to bring to the notice of the Wellington Commissioner the question of throwing open the Tongariro block for settlement, the roading of which, via Punga Punga and Taringamotu to Lake Taupo, would absorb large numbers of relief workers. It was also resolved to bring to the notice of the Minister of Public Works the proposal to settle the Puketapu block at the head of the Punga Punga area, en route to Tokaanu. This would provide further lands for settlement, and give access to known large timber areas of Crown and native lands.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1055, 20 August 1930, Page 16
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189UNOCCUPIED LAND Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1055, 20 August 1930, Page 16
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