The Daily News. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1903. GROWN LANDS GUIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 162, 13 July 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1903. CROWN LANDS GUIDE.

The issue of a Crown Lands Guide for the Land District of Taranaki will be heartily appreciated by those who are anxious for information regarding the land available for settlement. The Commissioner of Crown Lands is to be commended for so fully supplying this much needed information. The Guide, a copy of which we have before us, and for which we have to thank the local office, is admirably got up, having been printed at the Government Printing Office, Wellington, It gives very full instruction to and general information for intending applicants for Crown lands, and some information regarding the several tenures under which land

may be selected. The various forms which selectors have to fill up. when making application are also set out in full. In fact any one procuring a copy of the Guide will find practically all the information required to enable him to make application for land under the particular tenure under which the application is made. This is followed by details of the land open for selection, with, in many cases, a description of the section or block and the tenure under which it is open for selection. Altogether 90,382 acres are open for selection in Taranaki, 82,475 acres being rural land, 7,838 acres small grazing runs, and 69 acres being township lands in 151 sections. Of these lands 48,373 acres of rural lend and one small grazing run of 2113 acres are in Clifton County, 34,102 acres of rural land and one small grazing run of 3600 acres are in the Patea County, and one small grazing run of 2128 acres and all the township seotions are in the Stratford County. The Guide and the Broadsheets do not quite agree here. There is a brief description and area of the blocks now under survey in the north eastern parts of the land district together with the blocks which it is proposed to prepare for settlement. The former consisting of about 67,000 acres lying north-east of Stratford, excepting 14,800 acres which lies 40 miles inland of Eltham between the Whenuakura and Waitotara rivers, and the latter 71,000 acres nearly all of which lies north of Tongaporutu and Stratford, 24,000 acres lying nearly over against theWanganui River east of Strathmore. A very handy map of the land district showing each of the survey districts in red, all plainly numbered so that applicants can easily pick out; the locality of a section open for selection. The map also shows the principal road Jines, though this portion of the map could be considerably improved upon with very great advantage to the selector. On the whole the Taranaki Land Board is to be congratulated on supplying so much valuable and useful information in such a handy and complete form.