A GENEROUS GIFT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14495, 5 January 1918, Page 7

A GENEROUS GIFT.

FOR SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENT. fP«r Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Mr. George Hunter, M.P. for Waipawa, has ofreikd 2535 acres at Porangahau for soldiers' settlement. Tlie land is to be ballotted for at the termination of the war and will then be conveyed to the Government. Mr. Massey ."said to-day that he had accepted the off^r, which he regarded as i- particularly generous one. The Lands Department would proceed to prepare the land for occupation by discharged soldiers after the war. (Special to the Herald.) WT&LINGTON, this day. Tlie Prime Minister has received the following letter} from Mr. George Hunter, M.P. f or ,; Waipawa : ''Regarding my promise to 'make a free gift to the Government ofl part of my land at Porangahau, I \ now desire to confirm that promise, and offer the Government an 'area of land comprising about 2535 acres, being the whole of my freehold land between * the Walling-Porangahau road and the Porangahau river; the land to be used for the purpose of soldiers' settlement, and to be ballotted for at the termination of tho present war with Germany, or within six months thereafter, and to be conveyed by me to the Government when the land is balloted for. Until the land is balloted for I am to retain possession and to be the owner for all purposes, but the Govern.ment is to have the right at any time from now to survey, sub-divide, and road the land, and take further necessary steps to prepare the same for settlement." *■»■■■— —mo momm mow