BIG LAND DEAL.
GALATEA ESTATE.
PURCHASED FOR £100,000.
TO MAKE 150 DAIRY FARMS.
IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.")
WELLINGTON, this clay
The.biggest single land purchase since the land for settlement activities of Sir John Mackenzie has been 'completed by the GloyeivniDent's acquisition of the Trontbeck .block, in the Bay of Plenty, known as the Galatea estate.
It is nine, miles long and four miles ■wide, and comprised 22.Q5.0 acres, which, when fenced,..grassed and roaded, will provide abo'nt 150 dairy..-'farms.
The cost of tbcarca. is £100,000.
Au-am-sH rofHl will ; he immediately built,-.-to the railway at Tc Teko. . Some men arc. already being transferred to start -tl'iifi work", which. , with other develbjiftfeutiTl. , activities,' will" give em-.. ployftffifti- tp.fiVcrjruu'ared.'-It-.is'iiitciltled to completely grass and fence the eetate before: throwing; the land, open for selection lyr'intending dairy farmers. ■' . '.] '-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 10
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134BIG LAND DEAL. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 10
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