TARANAKI LAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 21 June 1909, Page 3

TARANAKI LAND

BUOCK TO BE THROWN OPEN 1 SHORTLY. The throwing open for selection of ® tile Waihukakaiwhaka (block of land J *. haa time past (been, consider--4 ably desired in the Stratford district, ! * •,: and recently Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., gave j ■ notice to ask the Minister for Lands a i 'ition oa this subject. At Wed- ' '• , . -toy's meeting of the Stratford ' - V junty Council, the chairman, Mr. G. A. ' Marchant, stated that while in Welling- . ton recently he had made it his business ' , to obtaiji some information with regard to' this block. He had interviewed Mr. .Kensington, of the Lands Department, and by him had been informed that for the past two years surveyors tad-Seen employed by the Government \ in endeavoring to survey main road Jiiics through the block. The block was for tlie greater part heavily timbered ' 1 and fertile, but the difficulty encountered in finding suitable road lines had ■ ■ ■• been almost'(without precedent in tlie !- experience of the surveyors engaged i: . thereon, owing to the absence of leadjag ridges' or streams. The Government • had lost no tinre, as it was only during the po«t three weeks that it had received a title to the block. It had had . lope of doing so, however, and in fulfil- •' nient of a promise made by Mr. McXab, had fore-tailed the tedious operation of the law •bjr settirig surveyors to work 1 ' two years, ago. The surveyors were mot working at the present time, but would • lie put on again as' soon as tin* days lenirthoned, so it was possible to feel I jhel'e was every prospect of tlie speedy ! settlement of this block. This, however, could' not be expected until the main roads had been surveyed, as were the Mock thrown open for selection as un'turveved land, endless difficulties would : tiftSfward* arise. That the Government was entirely in earnest In its endeavor V ■, to. own the block for settlement could l'ot be questioned, concluded C'r. Mar- . . • ./•>{, and the delay was ill reality due ' he character of the couutrv itself.— > Post.