Unemployed Settlement Scheme.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6742, 26 April 1893, Page 2

Unemployed Settlement Scheme.

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Wellington, This day. The Cabinet has set apart £10,000 for the unemployed eettlement schema Suitable areas for the experiment have batn selected as follows:—2500 acres in t>e Auckland d strict, on the road between Oxford nd Rotorua; 2500 acres in the Taranaki district, on the Urinui read ; 2200 acres in the Wellington distiiot, eastward of Rdngitikei nvor and w. stward of the new special settlement books at Marton, being a piece of ■and at one time choseu for a fltate farm Vut subsequently abandoned ; iSOO acres in the Otago district, on the road between Cat in's river and Waikawa, on the river Ohasland, and another block wi 1 probably be eelected on Catlin's river; 1200 acres in the Southland district, westward of the Waiau river, and n6ar its mouth. The scheme is to extend over four years. As aoon as the necessary arrangements can be effected, a start will be made—probably this week—with laying out the block in the Wellington district, and parties of men will be chosen to take up bush felling contracts. None but strong abb-bodied msn will be accepted. It is estimated these blocks will be obtainable by working men under this scheme at about three shillings an acre, or slightly over this rate.