MANGATOTARA LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1674, 19 December 1911, Page 2

MANGATOTARA LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Sir,-—lt is gratifying to know that the Government has at last decided to open up tho Mangatoara Block Settlement. To those of your readers who arc not acquainted' with this valuable land, permit mo through your columns to describe it -to them. Tho Mangatotara is heavy buh country, growing rimu, tawa, rata, totara, matai, miro, and hinati, with heavy underscrub. It is iv the heart of tho finest land in Bay of Plenty and stands comparison with" some of tho best to be found in the Dominion. Situato on the main road between ..aikato and Tamanga, it is easily reached from Matamata on the Rotorua railway. Tho.ro is now very ittle land to be had in its vicinity, •borne of the bush has been down for thirty or more years, and the grass, which has never been re-sown, speaks volumes for the land, which, during the milking season, carries nearly a beast to tho acre. Owing to the'remarkably heavy dews in that district tho summer droughts have not the slightest effect on this' land as in other parts of the country. There is always an abundance of green feed about there when everywhere else is parched and dry, and the country is watered by never-failing streams. One of the recent settlers in Kaimai adjoining the Mangatotara pronounces it to be equal to the majority of the land in the Feilding district.. There will doubtless be a laro- e number of applicants in for the ballot which I believe is to take place m January, and those who are successful will be extremely fortunate —1 am, etc.,

, T , . J. Morrison, Wanganui, December 16, 1911.