BUSH SETTLEMENT.
The Mount Baker Block.
The Mount Baker Block is now one of the most desirable localities in the Forty-mile Bush. About twenty families from Canterbury have lately 'aken possession of that part of the Block which lies next Alfredton, and preparatory operations for a permanent settlement are at present being pushed on vigorously. There are still, however, three t thousand two hundred acres to be dispused of, which the people of Mangaone are anxious to secuie ; but the Government does not think it advisable to encourage local enterprise. In connection with the matter about twenty of thesettlers met in the Mangaone schoolhouse on Tuesday evening, Mr von Reden, J.P., being in the chair. Mr Nelson proposed and Mr Tomliuson seconded, " Thai, in the opinion of this meeting it is against the interests of tho settlement of Crown Lands to abolish freehold title?, and that the members of this meeting are not prepared to take up| land iu the Mount Baker Block uiih'Ss they are able to get their freehold I titles iu time." I
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3939, 15 October 1891, Page 2
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176BUSH SETTLEMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3939, 15 October 1891, Page 2
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