THE ELUSIVE LAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 July 1919, Page 5

TH E ELUSIVE LAND.

SOLD-lERSI’ £7O SEARCH.

That the obtaining of a s:)}dZor’s Section is not as simple as falling off a housetop seems to be éieznonstrutkzd by the experience of a ga.‘-.~ nl\;ul'o'-31‘ of the New Zealand Form, who told -his tale to the Auckland “Star” recently.

The soldier in question, 4; well set’! educated young fellow, set out on the‘ search for land, a couple of months ago. Frankly he was not I)l‘ep:.]-ed to 30091313 One of the soldier scttleree-Dt sections which have been rejected by others, 1101- did he desire to buy a farm Privately 'on account of the boom prices znow prevailmjr. I-Icé had been after an unimproved Faction and in the course of his travels Trad‘ visited many of the blocks which have been announced as having been‘ set aside for soldier settlementsi ‘months ago. On making inquiries at‘ the Auckland offices for blocks which lseemed to meet his requirements he was told that the land Was not yet available for selection_ His peregrine.tions _took hinl to the Far North in the Kaitaia district, south to Taumarunui, and away east to the coast. 'To date his wanderings had abso‘r‘oed £7O. of his little capital, and yet he wasvtnot in possession of a ‘section.

In View of the fact that in one of the Auckland land districts scarcely an acre of unimproved land has actually been offered to the soldier for the past three or four months, he is naturally ‘(wondering whether the stories of scores of thousands of virgin acres being set aside for settlement is not a big bluff.