OPENING THE KING COUNTRY
LARGE AREAS FOR SETTLEMENT,! By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Government has completed the purchase of three areas of Native land, two areas of IOfiSO acres and 2,092 acres in the WharepHlmnga block and another of 2,609 acres in the Rangitoto Tuhua block, all in that part of the country popularly Tcnown as the King Country. The Wljarepuhunga land is not far from the place where the head works of the Arapuni hydro-electric scheme will be established. AH the land is open fern dountry. The next step towards releasing this land for settlement is to Ga/.etto it Crown land, and this will probably be clone in the Gazette this week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1920, Page 5
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