HAWKE'S BAY SETTLEMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association. ) HASTINGS, Saturday. The annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay Provincial District Farmers' Union was well attended. In tho course, of his address, the president (Mr. Selwyn Chamber?) said that each year more and more of the bivt land in Ilawke's Bay was turned into dairy farm?. The closer settlement of the district was a subject which wa# well worthy of the serious ~con.-i<ierati"ii of the Farmers' Union. There was not thp sdightpet doubt that even' man who owned his own farm or even a small piwp of land ■WEL3 a jreat asset to any d.strict. and Hawkc'a Bay had done well in the number of :-cttler> placed upon the land. Amonjst other lands opened up for selection recently wpre the Sheremien. Waihnn, Ahuaturanpi. and Otawhao blocks, comprising about 53.000 a<*res. In all, 1021 applications -were, deait with in connection with these lands. Mr. Chamber? Ava.* re-elected president.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 135, 8 June 1914, Page 9
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153HAWKE'S BAY SETTLEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 135, 8 June 1914, Page 9
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