NORTHERN SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1887, Page 3

NORTHERN SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

Gt4OWING ACOOUNTS.

(nr TELEORAI'IT.—OWi>' GORnESrONbES'T. )

Wgt,UNBTO.v, this day. The Mihister of Lands' has received a communication signed by the heads of tliirteen families located on the Village Settlements in Takahue Valley thanking him for the assistance rendered to them in placing them oii tho land. Thdy state, emphatically that the reports circulated that some of tho settlers are leaving Tnkntnd are fal«e. The wi-iters express .«atii*facUoft with the sections allotted to them, and state they feel sanguine as to their future prospects T. J. Lawrence, Writing from Ptihdtn, re ports B<itisfactorily of progress made dur'ng the 'month which he has passed on his land, and s&yR thut no spot in jfTew Zealand h more suitable for pool1 inch and small farmers. He consider=i that the Government deserve the thanks of the whole colony, arid especially of poof men, for the" land settlement systems. The soil climate and tenure in 'his neighbOUihooJ are ail that could be 'desired. The burden of the letter is that with communication with the outside world through a Steamer calling at Whangape, and with a little Government assistance in making: roads, the.settlers'lot will be a peculiarly happy one.