CLOSE SETTLEMENT IN WAIRARAPA.
;Ministers of have latterly been informing auaiences in. Aucfciland and elsewhere that an area of 20,000 acres of Native land in the Waifarpa was about to be thrbwn open for settlement. People in. this district• have-been anxiously, inquiring ''as to the whereabouts of * this land. It now transpires that the Government has ' been negotiating for the acquisition.of ,a : porlibn. of tlie/ Waitutuma Block; comprising sometr2,ouo acres, which is situated, the, vicinity of Cape Palliser. Tho" quality of tin* land may be judged from the fact that the price offered, by the Government ranges jfrom 5s && to'2os per acre. As the Natives, have demanded a price higher than that offered by the Government, it is a question whether the negotiations will be proceeded!,with., In any case the whole block would , not carry, more thai settlers: i So much '.for' close settlement lii . : the Wairarapa.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10163, 13 February 1911, Page 4
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147CLOSE SETTLEMENT IN WAIRARAPA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10163, 13 February 1911, Page 4
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