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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1940, Page 2

I Work has started on the development of 734 acres of scrub and fern land at Pukemoremorc. near Cambridge. for native settlement. Once Crown land, in 1928, it was granted to various landless Waikato Maoris, most of whom were of the Ngatihaua tribe, but practically no development followed, most of the land remaining idle, although the block is in a settled and closely-farmed district. With very few exceptions the owners did not live on the property. A small part of the area is swampy, but. the bulk is open, rolling country. The Native Affairs Department, which link assumed control under the development scheme, is employing Maori labour. which will be increased as work progresses. The idea is to cut the property into a number of small 'dairy farms when scrub has been cleared and new pasture properly established. Selected Maoris will be placed in these farms. It will be some years, of course, before this will be attained.