THE FIELDING SETTLEMENT.
Our Wellington telegrams report that the Fielding Settlement has proved a decided success. It will be remembered that the experiment was at one time regarded with considerable anxiety owing to a lack of funds, but the visit of Colonel Fielding appears to have set matters right. The settlement was established upon a very comprehensive plan ; and from its central situation, the excellent character of the land, the plentiful supply of totara and other fine timber, water supply, and other advantages, could not fail to be successful. The immigrants were well selected, and every care was taken to foster amongst them habits of industry, thrift, and self-re-liaitce. The recent sales of alternate blocks of land in the settlement has doubtless restored the finances of the corporation to a healthy condition, and we now learn that the Provincial Government of Wellington are so satisfied with the position and progress of^the settlement that they have withdrawn their lien upon the block, and are about to issue Crown grants.
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 20 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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168THE FIELDING SETTLEMENT. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 20 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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