FICTITIOUS SETTLEMENT.
JL' IVjllllUUO OXI/ X X JL . The Acting Minister of Lands (Mr. Bnddo) is apparently ignorant of the realities of his own department, for we do not charge him with attempting to mislead the trusting public as to the actual opportunities for land settlement about to be offered them. He has asserted, with tho customary flourish of oratorical trumpets, that oyer 195,000 acres will be opened up for selection during the present month. The public has immediate visions of from 500 to 1000 selectors being thus admitted to small agricultural holdings, but what are the facts? It appears that of this area over 160,000 acres consists of a few large sheep runs in out-of-the-way places of Otago and Auckland provincesThe smallest of these Auckland- runs is of 20,000 acres, and the largest Otago run is 50,000 acres.—“ Auckland Herald. 5 ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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142FICTITIOUS SETTLEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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