THAMES NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10346, 20 April 1911, Page 2

THAMES NEWS.

THE LAND HUNGER.

APPLICATIONS FOR GO'LDFEIIL-DS. SECTION®.

GBOWIIMJ IN 'POPIULAKITY

We ai'e r*leaselci to leaa-n that the land on the Hkuralki Peninsula is steadily gi-!oiwing in populad-ity and thatt before long there is every probability of a large araa. being 1 settled on and! improved. There are many thousand acres, 'cla.paiblei of ciarrying alarg'e nuimifer ot' sitocik, available, and we hope' befoite long 1 that we will | chronicle the! occupation of larsre a^etas. In tihe Taipu, Mafca, Tararu and Omahu districttsi there are severel splendid siections, and we underistand that while some of these halvtei already been applied for, others have been inspected and may also hie settled on.

In the 'Omiahu dlietriat \fe learn aboiut 1000 acres of land have been applied for. At Ta.pu some 600 acres will be odoupiad if the application be granted, while applications, have also Ween received for 600 acres in the Maita dlisMcit and 1 sieveral hundsied aorea up Tararu Orte'ek:.

Thia is a good sign and it is to be hopied that the authorities will do all potefeible to ejucouraigje the opening tilp and sbbtlemlent of these lands, soana of which will prove a valuable possession; and an aissiet of considerable importance to thei dittriot.