LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.
(BTWUWRAPH— OWN COBRWPOMPBtfI.)
Wellington, this day. As a good deal of capital is Wng made by he Opposition papers from the Hon. MoikenzlefSement tbab only 50,000 acres 5 land in the Otago Central district. are for small settlement, I inquired Ctothefaots. aud find that the fPeakermade „re of his text before leaving here for the South. Since the Otago central agitation In 1878 no reserves for settlement or rail, way have been made, bub free selection ZZ onUnstinted till the presenb Adm.n.s♦ration stopped it, with the resu t.that most of the land suitable for small settleSents has been alienated and would all ffvJ gone had not the present Cgovernmenb itoppfd purchases. Therefore, i.is, asi Mr McKenzie says, almost denuded of land Stable for small settlers. There is, how«ver, a considerable area suitable for grazing runs besides this.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 108, 7 May 1894, Page 3
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