FARMS PURCHASED
SOLDIER SETTLEMENTS PROPERTIES NEAR PUTARURU (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Eight properties totalling 17.832 acres have been bought by the Government in the Auckland Province at a total cost of £86,571, for the future settlement of returned soldiers, according to a statement made by the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F, Langstone, in an interview today. The average price is less than £5 per acre. The Minister said that in no instance had the compulsion clause of the Small Farms Amendment Act been operated, all the properties having been acquired by negotiation, l The areas purchased include 1246 acres near Te Kopuru. Northern Y/airoa, 1611 acres at the South liar-
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21374, 19 March 1941, Page 7
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112FARMS PURCHASED Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21374, 19 March 1941, Page 7
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