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DAIRYING AND CROPPING

COUNTRY

Land seekers from Marlborough, Canterbury, or Wellington have now an opportunity to secure a piece of splendid land, quite handy to the market of tiie Empire City. • Mrs 1. W. Gregg, has decided to subdividy the Linkwater 'Dale estate, about 725 aoreu. There wiil be about 20 farming sections, besides a number of township building sites. This estate is situated in the Mahakipawa Valley, lying between Queen Charlotte and Feloru* Sounds, and can be reaehled from Wellington in o hours, taking the steamer from "Wellington to Pioton, a run of about, four hours, and from Pieton to the Grove whan at IVXahakipawa there is a regular service meeting the Wellington boats on arrival. This is a trip of 45 minutes, and one can easily drive from tht? Grove wharf on to the estate in Ib minute:. " In about two years tilie-re will be a good motor road all tho way from Pieton, to the Mahakipawa. Valley, and when this is carried out ony will be able to get from Pieton to the Lank water Dale estate in less tihan half an hour. This Mahakipawa Valley constitutes a very fertile piece oi« country of about two to three thousand acres flat; the soil is a fine warm loam, and could be classed as some ot t)he best cropping land in the Dominion, whilst it is also .splendid dairying land. It holds the grass well, and ■has a carrying capacity of one milking oow to .two-' -acres. The dairying industry is' in full swing, there being, a well-equipped cheese factory close to the steamer landing at the GTove wharf, and at Paradise Bay t'hetre. is a butiiqr factory. The hutter-fat test (4.3) will compare very "favorably with almost any dairying district in -either the-North or South Island. Produce grown in the Mahakipawa Valley can be put'on the steamer at the Grove Wharf and landed in "Wellington at< a cost of from Bs. 6d to 12s par ton without any transhipping. The Linkwater Dale estate is only 10 miles from Havelock by a good road, and 39 miles,from, Blenheim. At,the former place there are quarterly stock sales, i •The property is well watered; it lies j well to the sun, and the' climate is one of the best iv the Dominion. Tho sections will range in area from 20 to about 90 acres, and nearly all an*e well fenced. On six or. eight of them there are very comfortable littile houses, and one of them has the most up-td-u-ate milking shed to be- found, with concrete floor and yard, Complete Ga.ne milking plant, 150 gallon separator, both worked by water. power, supplied from a reservoir on . the Mil-side. The same power is used for driving a circular- saw and. hosing the Avihoie shed. The homestead, sectioiij whiclh is bounded on one side by the M&hakipawa arm of Pelorus Sound, 'Constitutes a very fine property. The area is about 40 acres 1x tftiera is a really- good residence of about 13 rooms erected only -about, two ye,ars ago, all the necessary outbuildings, and a well matured orehaird in. full bearing. This estate can ba reached and inspected.'for an Dutla'y of only 30s from the Empire Dity. The sale has been entrusted bo the well-knowm firm of Abraham Mid Williams,. Ltd.. of Palmereton North, and will be held at Wellington mi July Ist.