SETTLING THE LAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2394, 8 January 1909, Page 5

SETTLING THE LAND.

FRESH BLOCKS TO BE OPENED UP. [Press Association.] AVELLINGTON, Jam 7. The 'surveyors of the Lands Department are pushing on with the surveys of Crown Lands, about eighty men being engaged on this work m -various parts of the Dominion at the present time. The Land Purchase officers of the Government have lately purchased considerable areas of Native Land in the Clifton, Ohura and AVhangamoana districts (Taranaki), AA r aitomi (Auckland), and Taupo west. The surveys of these lands, which will be offered under the optional system, are now being proceeded with. Tlic Kauroo estate (acquired from the Teschemaker family), of 19,000 acres, near Oaniaru, which is to be put oil the market shortly, comprises 33 holdings, ranging in area from 300 acres to 3.000 acres. Only half the number of sections offered in tbe Tautiri block, Auckland, which was opened on December 21st, were taken up at the time, but, from enquiries which have been made since, it is expected that the whole of the sections will be disposed of in the course of the next few weeks. As showing the feeling in regard to the freehold it may be mentioned that the majority of tlie sections in the Turipiri block, -Hawke’s Bay, offered the other day, were secured under the occupation with right of purchase system.