PARTITION OF THE KING COUNTRY.
Amoxght the printed annual reports from officers' in charge of native districts, is a long one from Mr G. T. Wilkinson, of Alexandra, chiefly devoted to the natives of the King Country and the work of the Land Court at Otorohanga. Referring to the latter Mr Wilkinson- says :—The surveys, bo far as they are finished at present, represent mostly awards of. Court-that have been made in the early part of the Court's sitting during the last two years, but in many casos the blocks represented by those awards have since , been sub-divided by further orders of the Court, and each further sub-division is represented by a separate set of owners (in somo cases as many as eight or ten subdivisions having been made of' one block), and it will be bnly after the surveys of these subdivisions have been completed, that the area of eacli is known, that they will; be in a position to be purchased. It will, therefore, be seen how necessary it is that not »tily the outside boundaries of the blocks originally awarded shottld be surveyed, but so 1 also should the snbdivsions, that in, for the purpose of facilitating purchase and the settlement of the country by Europeans. * * * Although the native , owners of the Rohepotae blocks are not likely as a whole to take kindly-...at- first to.any system, of. wholesome lanfl-purchase by the (iovurnment, there are,—however,'"a, considerable number who are ready at once to sell their interests in one or more blocks. 1 think, therefore, that the time in now oppoi tune for commencing the purchase of such blocks as are suitable for settlement, and the occupation of which by Europeans would act as a feeder to the railway. With land-piirchase once started on a satisfactory basis, I do not think it will be long before the Crown will have acquired a considerable area of land in the Kin? Country, which could be thrown open for settlement.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2680, 14 September 1889, Page 2
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328PARTITION OF THE KING COUNTRY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2680, 14 September 1889, Page 2
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