LAND SETTLEMENTS FOR EXCIVIL SERVANTS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 301, 24 June 1909, Page 5

LAND SETTLEMENTS FOR EXCIVIL SERVANTS.

fPBESB ASSOCIATION J WELLINGTON, yesterday. Tli r eo settlements for retrenched civil servants aro being provided by the Government— -one about 8 miles from Kihikihi or Itawa railway station on the Main Trunk Railway, another at Raurimu, and the third at Owhanga, both on the Main Trunk Line south of Taumarunui. Applications for land are to be invited shortly from retired civil servants whose superannuation allowance does not exceed £75 per annum, and the opportunity offered is such that within twelve months the new settlers should be producing from their holdings. The Kihikihi settlement is reached by a good formed Toad, and on it there will bo 18 small farms of from 160 to 180 acres of fern or titree country, while at Raurimu and Owhanga the settlements adjoin the inaiii line, and are of bush country subdivided in. similar ureas to the Kihikihi settlement. Liberal advances are to be made towards the erection of a house on each section, while the holders will be given further advances up to £2 10s per acre for felling bush and grassing, or up to £2 per acre for clearing and grassing the fern and ti-tree land.