CROWN LAND BEING SURVEYED NEAR TE AROHA.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 195, 19 March 1887, Page 2

CROWN LAND BEING SURVEYED NEAR TE AROHA.

Fjiequent applications having been nuulo by residents at Waihou to the Land Department to have the Crown lands adjacent to that township thrown open for occupation in small areas, Mr Percy Smith and Mr Goldsmith of the Survey Department, Auckland, arrived at Te A roh on Monday last, to stare the work of re-surveying the land. On their arrival becoming known, a requisition was sent Mr Smith from Waitoa residents that they would like to have an' interview with him, and make known their requirements. Thereupon Mr Smith kindly arranged to meet them on Tuesday evening last. The interview took place in Mr T. Howes cottage, about twenty persons being present. Mr Smith first explained to those assembled the various systems under which land could now bo taken up ; cash, dof erred payment, perpetual leasing, village settlement, etc., etc. A general desire being expressed that the land adjoining the township be cut up in areas of about seven to ten acres, Mr Smith promised to try and meet their wishes as far as reaso; « le ; ifc being the dasire ofJGoTemment to give every possible encouragement to the settlement of the land. The land is now being surveyed by Mr Goldsmith and his staff. We may state that aboufc six or seven years ago this land was surveyed into 200 to 300 acre blocks, but has never been taken up. It is the intention of Government with respect to the survey now proceeding to deal with only the best portions of the land referred to, which is situated on Block 10, Waitoa, and Block 11, Te Aroha district* That Government are desirous of meeting the expressed wishes of probable applicants, the following facts will show. About 150 acres will be surveyed on the south side of the railway line. Commencing at tin* Waiwhero stream (near U cT\ , Nnrs «y)i ■» the strip of land lying between the railway and the Waihou township blodk will be cot up into sections of aboufc ten acres each, for a distance of aboufc half a mile on each side of the road leading from the the township to the railway station ; and as a chain wido road will be laid off parrallel with the railway, and another adjoining the township block, ample pro vision^ are being made with respect to accessibility ; in fact those sections on tho western side of the station road will be bounded back and front by the two roads just referred to. On the eastern side, the survey will be continued an additional half mile towards Te Aroha, to a point a little below the bend in the coach road where ifc adjoins the railway line, this portion of the land will be surveyed into acreas of from ten to fifty acr<Js each* Crossing the railway to the northern bide.

about 500 acres of the best land in the vicinity, which lies some little distance back from the Jine, will be - cot op into blocks of lafjlr extent, the character of the land referred to as about to be thus thrown" open for occupation is titree, flax, and swamp j the price we understand will not exceed £2 per acre, which, considering the situation, is most reasonable.