THE UREWERA.
WEALTH OF RICH LAND. By Telegraph —Press Association. Whakatane, Last Night. The Parliamentary party making the East Coast tour is at Whakatane tonight. On Thursday the party goes to Ruatoki, on the edge of the Urewera terra incognita, 650,000 acres of land, and the famous retreat of the Maoris. The Maoris will gather at Ruatoki to meet the party, who will then return through the Opouriao Valley, once a sheep station of three families producing £BOOO worth of wool. It was cut up in 1806 by the ,State, the purchase price being £24,000, and it is now supporting sixty families and producing over £lOO,OOO worth of butter and cheese in addition to stock. Settlers have refused £l2f. an acre for country which will carry a cow to the acre.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1921, Page 4
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131THE UREWERA. Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1921, Page 4
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