TE AKAU ESTATE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 200, 22 August 1905, Page 3

TE AKAU ESTATE.

iFrom Our Ovru Correspomlent-i RAGLA-N, Monday. The lease of the much-talked of Tr Aiati estate hus explrf«L and it remains to be seen wJutt t# to be<-ome of it. The X-J£-Loan and Mercantile AjriMu-y Co. heid a eiearanee sale at riie homestead 0:1 tli* IBth iß»t. S;> tn::ny <->>nSleuu;; opinion have appeared in the pt.ulic press chat ir would be difficult for a sCRUtge-l" to make up his mind oa tIK» subject. Th? estste consists of abont Sy r O?X> acres, which, after tie ilaorl war. was iiiren ti> c-ertaiu loyal natives. Thi* laad been iease-1 as a run for the last 27 years, it Etas been lUrided in:» three blocks, eae6 block being allotted to a different U>; «r aaci-res. and only a eoaaparatlTeiy Mia3 prupottioa Uas been oudesr Some of the Luml is very gtio«l first cia=s limestone cotmtry. and a proportLux is very poor ligln busii and fern Ian;!. Mr Carroll, tile Xatire iliaister, iaspectc-I part of it -Ixst ssmmer, anil att!ion?h b.-* i-'uly spent a'.iont iuxlf a day oa it. I tnliit he iiriired at correct eoaelnsitMi. tiz., rfear it is not suitable for «o-rtlemeiit. -1 URder-jtand that the owners of The soiusern b!oi-fc, that i«. the end. purtiu? stoi-k on it and k as a tribal rnn. Whet her this- will wars sati-sfactorilr rf-iiiaia.s in Iμ* sacs" bat i 3Ti afraid rae ciianc-es are very ma'rrt asainst: it. ITie owners, nf the aiidille and northern blocks mc c ta lease them to two di£E>rf>ut (.-oinp-tnies or syndicates for srazirnr parposes. after reserjiiii ronsMersMe areas of the- very pick' of it for their ovya I thiDt It Ls a jtrear pity that tiie Gove-nnir-ut did not mast^ some atrijnseuiei't whereby the estate eonl3 have been cut np into good size<l farms and small srazias mas. »vin«r seiraritj- anil protection both, to tile native owaars and p:!k»h:i leaseholders.