SUBDIVISION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 3

SUBDIVISION.

TILOCK OP DAIRYING & CBOPPIKG COUNTRY. Land-seekers liave ;tn opportunity t=) se--5, uro il? excellent piece of land, handy to the Wellington market. Mm I, ' W Gregg has decided to subdivide her prol perty, known as the Liufavater Dale £%. tate, in all about 725 acres. There trill bo about 20 farming sections, besides a number of towns-kip buiMin.g sites. Tins estate is situated in the Mahakij-air* Valley, lying between the CWu Chariot*® Sound and the Morns gonad, and is to bo reached from Weiiington in'Ave hours. X'lie Mahakipawa, Tailor is « vfiry fertile pieee of country of about two to tfcroo thousand acres flat. Tile soil is a fine warm loam, and could be classed as Feme of the best cropping land in the Dominion, whilst at the same time it is splendid dairying land. It hokls the grass well, and has a carrying capacity of one milking cow to two acres. There is a (Ik-ch- factory to the steamer landing at the Groves Wharf, and at Parciclife Bav there is a butter factory. The tatter-fat test (4.3> will compare favourably with that aahievl ed in almost any dairying district. Produce grown in the Mahakipawa V.-lk-v win be put on the steamer at Groves Wharf; and landed in Wellington at. a cost of from Ss. Gd. to 12s. ner ton. and this without transhipping. The Linkwater Drde Estate is oiily 10 miles from Have-lock br a good road and 39 miles from Blenheim. The sections will rang® in area from 20 tn about CO acres, and nearfv all ore well fenced. On six of warht ftf ihem th.ore are very comfortable Kttk s houses, and ofio of them has an up-to-dote milking sherl, with concrete floor and yard. Mmploio Gane milking plant, and liltS-gallon separator, bnfh worked l;y water power. The homestead section constitutes a fine property. The area i- about 40 acre?, and there is a gcod residence of about 13 rooms, which was only erected about two years ago. A ma.ttrml orchard is in full bearing. This dwelling, would mfike an excellent tourist resort. This estate ea*i be reached and inspected ;d. a vfrv small cost, as the whole trip only means an outlay of Ms. from tha Rmpij-p City. The •nle of this estate lias Veil entrfistsd to Messrs. .Abraham anj William®. T.M.. Pal. morston North, and will be. hold at'Wei. liunton on .Tulr 1.