LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
ASSETS' COMPANY'S WAIKATO
ESTATES
In continuation of their policy of buying large estates and cutting them up for settlement, tlie Government intend taking over several of the Waikllto estates of the Assets Company. The. estates which will probably be taken over are: Fen Court, Tirau and Okovoire, aggregating about 150,000 acres. Major Harris and Mr K. Thompson, members of the. Auckland Lands Board, accompanied by Mr Gerhard Mueller, Commissioner, left for Wellington yesterday afternoon to meet the other members of the Land Purchase Board and the Assets Company, in order to make arrangements for 'the acquirement of the lands by the Government. Mr McKerrow, Chief Land Purchase Commissioner, inspected the estates a short while ago. The opening of the lands will give a great impetus to settlement in the Upper Waikalo.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 146, 22 June 1899, Page 8
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134LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 146, 22 June 1899, Page 8
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