SETTLEMENTS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 23. Three settlements for retrenched Civil Servants are baing provided by the Government, one about eight miles from Kihikihi or Kawa railway station, on the North Island Main Trunk line; another at Raurimu; and the third at Owhanga. Both of these are on the Main Trunk, south of Taumaranui. Applications for land are to be invited shortly from retired Civil Servants whose superannuation allowance does not exceed £75 per annum, and the opportunity offered is such that within twelve mouths the new settlers should be producing from their holdings. The Kihikihi settlement is reached by a good formed read, and on it there will be eighteen small farms of from 163 to 180 acres of fern or ti-treo country; while at Raurimu and Owhanga the settlements adjoin the main line, and are of bush country subj divided into smaller areas to the Kiliikibi settlement. Liberal advances arc to be made towards the erection of a house on each section, while the holders will be given further advances up to £2 10s per acre for felling bush and grassing, or up to £2 per aero for clearing and grassing the fern and ti-tree land.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7830, 24 June 1909, Page 3
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202SETTLEMENTS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7830, 24 June 1909, Page 3
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