Land For Civil Servants

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4430, 1 July 1909, Page 3

Land For Civil Servants

Three settlements for retrenched Civil Servants are being provided by the Go • vernment. One is about eight milts from Kihikihi. or Kawa Railway Station,, on the North Island Main Trunk line. Another is at Raurimu, and the third at Owhanga, both on the Main Trunk, south of Taumarumii. Applications for land are to be invited shortly from retired Civil Servants whose superannuation allowance does not exceed £75 per annum, and the opportunity offered is such that i within twelve months the new settlers * should be producing from their holdings. ! The Kihikihi Settlement is reached by a good formed road, and on it there will be 18 small farms of from 160 to 180 acres of fern or ti-tree country, while at Raurimu, and Owhanga, the settlements adjoin the main line, and are of bush country, sub-divided into smaller areas than the Kihikihi Settlement. Liberal advances are to be made towards the erection of a house on each section, while the holders will be given further advances up to £2 10s per acre for felling bush and grassing or up to £2 per acre for clearing and grassing the fern and ti-tree land.— Thames Advertiser.