LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 39, 10 December 1920, Page 4

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

OOVIRNMENT PURCHASIrs. According to a statement to a News correspondent by the Hon. H. D. Guthrie, Minister in Charge Soldier Settlement, active purchase is being continued. He has made a defhiite offer for an area at Tairua,- Mercury Bay, at- a little less than the vendor asked. If this is bought twenty or twenty-two soldiers will be able to secure good dairy farms. The Government has bought the wellknown Motu tara property near Kumeu, on the Helensville railway. The a-rea is 2,984 acres capable of subdivision into twenty-two sections for- dairying and grazing. There ara also a number of seaside sections fronting the West Coast. Instructions have been given that no time is to be lost in arranging the area for selection. An offer for portion of Clark's Opou estate, near Gisborne, is being consiclered by the vendor.