A NEW DEPARTURE IN SETTLEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 162, 30 November 1896, Page 5

A NEW DEPARTURE IN SETTLEMENT.

* It appears that a somewhat novel departure is about to be taken in New Zealand settlement. The passengers by the Rimutaka, which left London on the 15th October, and is due in Wellington tomorrow night, include a party of' intending settlers under the leadership of Mr. Philip Perry, who was for some time a resident in Auckland, but formerly was with Mr. John Grigg on the latter gentleman's celebrated farm at Longbeach, Canterbury. Mr. Perry has, says the Christchurch Press, been engaged latterly in connection with the management of the Cplonial Training College at Hollesley Bay, Norfolk, and has been so impressed with the merits and advantages of that admirable institution that he desires to reproduce it at the Antipodes. With this view he has undertaken the charge, and leadership of a party of fifteen young men, all well born and possessing a considerable amount of capital, and also strongly backed by moneyed relatives. The scheme is to start a model farm and a training college m New Zealand, where the young men will remain and work and learn colonial ways, manners, and customs for two or three years, after which probably they may choose to ■ settle for themselves on separate properties. Their destination is the Auckland Province, and if possible their intended estate will bo secured somewhere in the Waikato district. They have been for some time in treaty with the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company for the Matau property, but the price asked was higher than Mr. Perry felt warranted in paying. The negotiations, we believe, finally fell through, and Mr. Perry bas either secured a suitable piece of land in the Waikato district, or has the virtual certainty of. being able to do so on his arrival. It remains to be seen how the scheme works out, but it certainly appears to have all the advantage! of a good start,