LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
ESTATE IN ASHBURTON PURCHASED.
[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. The “Guardian” states that the Government lias purchased l from Mr. George Palmer the Ruapuna. estate, containing 4431 acres for closer settlement purposes. The land which is about 20 miles from Ashburton, is well known for its fertile qualities, as being fine grazing country, and as producing splendid crops of turnips, rape, and oats. It should, therefore, be capable of subdivision into nine farms of about 500 acres each. The estate belonged to the late Mr. John Ballantyne for many years. Ruapuna is the only estate in the Ashburton county acquired by the Government for closer settlement purposes in. the last dozen years, the Highbank estate, purchased about 1898, being the last one to be so dealt with in that way.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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134LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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