LAND SETTLEMENT.
;By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)
WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
In the House of Representatives today Mr Jennings asked the Government to consider purchasing the Mokau Jones estate, which h.ad a frontage of 40 miles to the Mokau Eiver, and was lying waste—a bar to settlement in Taranaki and South Auckland.
Mr Herries (Bay of Plenty) asked if the negotiations for the purchase of the Waimana Estate had been abandoned.
The Premier replied that the Waimana negotiations were still going on. He could not say anything in regard to the other proposal, which should be submitted to the Lands Purchase Board. The Government was not going to abandon it 3 land for settlement policy. He had never made any statement to the contrary, bdit he liad said that the country could not go on purchasing estates to the extent of £750.000 per annum. Facilities would, however, have to be provided for settlers to obtain land on easy terms, and the scheme required to be taken a.s part of the great scheme of land settlement.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 7
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