THE NGAROMA FAILURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 6

THE NGAROMA FAILURE.

T am a soulcr in thr Ngaromi Blork, wild *s affWted \:\ \>v-h i-ickne*-». and lie Detail rat<Ni Lands- Commission, whira rame round tie M»ttlenient last .lime, say in iheir report of HIT farm lba( they <-<.ii»i<l< r that portion of lie seotinii should }>c ihioun iutu ihe adjoiniM secni<- rc-»er\c. and iliat Ihr pioiujhablp portion !>e a]]..f."d n> atioihcr adjwMiins settler. Hμ i c . a- you μ-c advi-in-; nu- u> quit and frrt tnrt, if i>o-si!.]<\ I asked the Minister of Lands tiist I b<? al](i»pil to select a par!lv-improved secHon. of which the Land- IVpsrtnient IIBTBI minil«er on their hand-. -\». ]1 h the ronfidpratioß that rent «a> io l.p remitted or posiponed for a nuinWr <>f yea re. so a- t<• allow me a liresft* in™ sjiar-e to reewver m>' foci. 3 have a wife and four children, an.l ha\c ]os; ibc sarinprf the las-t twenty years of my life at NraroiM. an<s, nnlt-ss th<- Uovemment allow jvm a little consideration. I shall find n impossiblr to Btßt apain with any jtosjxti <>f success. 1 am off* ciallv informed. h<iwever. that there cxirts u» scheme whatever l<y which anyone < - -an helped to a start apain <<n ibe land. This,* , you see. l<-a\cs onl_\ one cmrv oi>rn lo Tlf. tint is. to emigrate lo a more s_\ •■ yiathetic romitlT. If. ST. (LAIB