LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 35, 6 March 1909, Page 2

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Til li iIATE.UATEO.Nii A KSTATIi. Mr. li, li, Bric-kiiell, of Tututawa, Jia*_ received the following coiiiimiJiieiiLioii (says the Posi) from tin* Minister for Laud* with reference to the purchase oi the Mateinabe,onga e.statc for eloper .settlement:—"Sir,—l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd February, signed l»y yourself a-nd eight others, in which you urge that

a block of land known as the MatemaUonga estate, evidently portion of a large area- originally belonging to the .Maoris, and which was apparently purchased from theni by ill 1 . Perry, lie acquired for closer .settlement. In reply, 1 have to inform you that I am referring the mat-

ter to the chairman of the band Purchase Board to obtain the necessary report as to its suitability for closer settlement, and if so to submit the same to •the Land Purchase. J>oard for consideration.—l am, etc., J. 0. Ward."

THE MOKiAC IvSTATK. Ivecommendatiioni relative to a parcel of land comprising oti.iiOt) acres 'n the (Mokau country a.re, it is said, embodied I'll a. final report oi tln» Native Uuuls V-'ommissaiii. which were f'orwarded to |!us 'Excellency' the Ouvernor yestcrilay | ; irior to t'he Hcparlurc of the Chief Jus- | l ice to lOiigland. Should the reconilaiiendatrons set out in tTie voport be aciA'tL on it in likely that a large area of ! khe country described in the said recom11uendaifoit< hmv be opened for selection find .sottlcme'.it.—TiniN's.