GOVERNMENT LAND SALES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2078, 29 July 1890, Page 2

GOVERNMENT LAND SALES.

TO THE EDITOE, g lE) —At last, after an interval of over three weeks, you give a report of the result of the late land sale in this district. If I had not managed to get the loan of a copy of the Lyttelton Times of July sth some time ago, I should only now have heard the result of the sale. So much for your essentially local paper, devoted to the interests of the district. Again, I see in your leader of to-day’s issue on the result of the above sale, you state that there is scarcely one new home to be v *nilt,” and again “ that not one new hnmflV- 11 be built >” etC> NOW ’ Sir ’ I know te. fiat at leas*_three of the successful applicant .. people here, coming tip from and near it, and about to start afresh for themselves. Mr C. Jessop and Mrs Jessop, who have got two rue o > are coming up to begin again, he having just completed a 14 years lease of over 800 acres near Ngapara, at a rent of £SOO a year, very successfully. Mr Jessop has a family ot eight children, and will certainly require a “new home” somewhere on Sis land, in fact, he !“■» bo “ lo< *“8 out for a eite to-day. 1 Mr Wl “; Lynn, a steady, industrious man, with teams of his own and capital to start with, has been some years agricultural contractor in the Oamaru district. Mr Allan McMaster has been 12 years a shepherd on a station south, and is

also a very desirable settler. I also am a new settler in this district, but was not fortunate enough to secure one of the runs, —l am, etc., T.B. Pleasant Valley, July 24,1890.

[The Land Board sits in Christchurch, and we looked for the report in the Christchurch papers, but failing to find it at the proper time we overlooked it. Mr Jessop is not a new settler on the land. He has been settled on it in the Oamaru district for 14 years. The other two mentioned are, but what we complain of is that instead of two new settlers there ought to have been two hundred, as there would have been under proper management.,— Ed.]