THE WHANGAPE COUNTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2908, 5 March 1891, Page 2

THE WHANGAPE COUNTRY.

TiiKßi: is probably no district in this portion of the colony who™ settlement of tlio ri<rht kind is progressing so raiiidly as at Wlianitapc, including the coast country, which extern!* from tho mountain ran go at the bacl: of Xgaruawahia, Tuupiri, liuntly, etc., to tho To Akau run. During the past ypar no less than 35.000 acres have been taken up by buna fide settlers, under thu perpetual lease system. Somo of tho nowcomeiij have left tho best districts in Waikato and Auckland to {jo out to tho now land. They were so ainnzod with Uio quality of the soil, whioh is upon a limestone formation, and also impressed with its capabilities as ashecp-cairyiusf country, that they at once decided to avail themselves of the liberal terms upon which tho Govorumuut oiler this land, viz., perpetual loaso, with an upset prico of 10j per acre. Block"! of 2,000 acres cau bo taken up, and thn (itlo, once tlio improvements «re effected, can be converted into a freehold, When better means of communication aro established butween this district and the Waikato, which we hope will soon bo thu case, now that settlers aro inereasinpr. the traflic and trade incidental to tho opening up a now district will bo of mutual benefit. Upon tho larßO estato known as Te Akau, oporatioiid of considerable magnitude uro boini? carried out. It is iuteuded, wo understand, by the proprietary, the Loan and Mercantile Co., to expend in bushfallinp:, eleariner, f,'rassiiiK, etc-, within tho next throe yoars, no less than twenty-livo thousand pounds, Goixi judges crftiniato that tho ostato will thau have a carrying capacity of 60,000 shcop. t'ufc cattle aie beitiK regularly sent to A uckland in mobs of 100 a month, These etocks do not come via Waikato, but fro down through Waiuku. Altogether the future of these West Coast districts is of great interest and importance. It would probably be bettor policy for intending settlers, to abstain from tralhcing in native lands beyond the boundary line, at least until the laws relating to thorn are less complicated, and pay a visit to Whangape, where hrge area* of gnod land can bo obtained upon terms, tho liberality of which is apparent to all.