LAND SCHEME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 157, 28 July 1909, Page 3

LAND SCHEME.

JOE RETRENCHED CIVIL SERVANTS ?:■ " By Telegraph.—Press Association. =i-. Wellington, Last Night. \ In connection with, the Government's proposal to afford facilities fo* retrenchi £d civil servants to go oa the.land, the i Commissioners of, Crown. Lands in Wellington, Taranaki and Auckland are getting ready areas to lie opened up that are most /convenient. The land will be ' available (for selection in October next. • It is anticipated that about 100 sections, .averaging 'between ISO and 200 acres each, will be placed 'on the market for : this purpose in Wellington district; 100 sections of the same area in Auckland; and about 120 sections in Taranaki district. When the Commissioners have re- ' . ceived the necessary information re- . carding the roads to give access to these lands, applicants will bfe invited ih each district-from ex-civil servants and other landless persona, and the respective Land Boards will then consider the .whole of the applications and select (lose deemed suitable to go on the land. A Miol will then be held between the fatter for choice of the sections. It is ' hoped sufficient land will be made avail- ' able to 'satisfy all applicants, but it lias to be remembered that suitable Crov.n lands of such comparatively email .;:wsa are very limited, and there is always the necessary consideration , ' that such land has to be selected within k-., geven or ten miles from the main line t 0f railway. v The land to be offered in Wellington Phr district is principally forest country. f 'ln Taranaki it comprises forest and * open land, and in Auckland it is mostly open land, partially covered with forest ' ; in some cases. Special survey parties are now out in various localities definy jnjf boundaries and surveying roads. J"' The Commissioners of Crown Lands 'if'.' will be authorised by special regulation to make advances to selectors up to 30s l an acre for 'buslifelling, ten shillings per acre for grassing, and up to £SO to assist in the building of'a dwelling on each selection. - 'r. In regard to open lands, the Commisi " - rioners will be empowered to make ad.rjWeJ' ftr ploughing and grassing, also 'Hp to £SO for house. It will be neces- - r >r the men applying for these secf < satisfy the authorities that '•' -tend to live on them, the object of throning these areas open' being to i * : ''promote.bona fide settlement and not to.' alloir nnv of them to be taken up for . .speculatire purposes, because of the vnlit hie timber growing on the land. Furthermore, no transfers will be grant- , ed except with the full approval of the •. Land Board ih the district in which the - land is situated.