THE LAND HUNGER.
DEPUTATION OF YOUNG NEW ZEALANDEKS. WELLINGTON, February 3. A deputation from the Young New Zealanders' Land Settlement Association has been interviewing tbe Minister of Lands re the sub-divi-sion and settlement of about two hundred thousand acres in Lower Clarence Valley, of which thirty thousand acres are freehold. Mr Walter Gibson, President of the Assuoiation, informed the Minister that the area once carried 110,090 sheep, and now has only 52,000. Rabbits had over-ran it, aod, if not settled at once, the district would be devastated. It was also good far frnitgrowing. It was suggested that the Government should retain a portion as a State Farm fcreducational purposes. The Minister said the proposals involved a large exDenditure, but he would send experts to report. The deputation also saw Sir Joseph Ward and asked him to acquire one hundred acres at Kahutara, bluff, for scenic purposes, and to preserve the bush on tbe road to Blenheim. Sir Joseph Ward promised to have the suggestions reported on.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7956, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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166THE LAND HUNGER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7956, 5 February 1906, Page 5
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