CONTENTED SETTLERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3055, 27 November 1908, Page 4

CONTENTED SETTLERS.

I Referring to his recent tour in the Crown lands districts, Mr James Mackenzie, Commissioner for the Wellington Land District, stated at the meeting of the Land Board at Wei • lington yesterday that he had visited Tenui, Langdale, E'setahuna, and the East Coast Settlements, and everywhere he wunt he found settlers were most prosperous ar.d contented with their holdings. The only complaint made in his hearing was that the holdings had become too small as the families had grown up and the development of the properties had extended. In the Langdale Settlement some holders were 50 miles from a market, and had blocks of from 30 to 40 acres, but they had | done well indeed, and to-day they ; could obtain excel lent prices for their land if they wished to sell. The same might be said of settlers in the Forty-mile Bush, right up to the Gorge. They seemed to be getting along remarkably well. They had got over their fire trouble, the grass had grown well, and generally the people were now in good heart.