RUSH FOR LAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 June 1919, Page 2

RUSH FOR LAND.

HAURAKI PLAINS BOOM.

l THAMES, June 25_ Something reminiscent of t.hc golcl ’rnsh days is taking place on the ;H-auraki ‘Plans land. Fal'm§ars from l'l‘uranaki, Manawatu, and other rich i dziirying districts are making the Plains la. “mecca,"’ and quite a pilgrimage has set in. It .<::lys a good deal for the possibilities of the plains that these keen judges of good dairying land are so impressed with the productiveness of the area that the price is rarely 21 stumbling block. In the past fortnight alone twenty farms have changed at prices a.vel‘ag*ing about £7O an acre, the total amount. of the transactions being ]l|Sl'. on £150,000_ These figures repx." sent actual transfers, and many more salvs have been reported since. Figun-.< axailable show that 171:‘ dairy production of the .I’lains last year totalled over £150,000, and in ad<:'lition great numbers of fat cattle commzmdecl top prices. As yet only one- third of 80,000 odd acres of Hauraki Plains has been thrown open, and only a portion of that third has yet been improved.