THE CALL FOR LAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5

THE CALL FOR LAND

. —i «H»- — '■ ESTATES FOR. EARLY SELECTION. BIG MARLBOROUGH ESTATE AVAILABLE. (By Telegraph —Special to the Star) WELLINGTON Thk Dajr' An unusually large quantity of land for settlement areas are to be placed on the market between the present date and the end of March. The total amounts to 131,636 acres, nine estates being subdivided. The Lands Department is busy preparing the necessary data, and I have been given preliminary details of a general character showing that the opportunities for selection are fairly numerous and certainly well distributed. In the Southland Land District, the four available estates aggregate 25,551 acres, while there are two in Canterbury totalling 5393 acres, one in Wellington of 9390 acres; two in Marlborough totalling 9100 acres, including the big Hillesden estate, which will be subdivided into 43 .sections. Later on the Spring Hills settlement .of C23l' acres in Hawke's Bay, near Waipawft., will be cut up into 15 sections, but the date on which this will be available has not yet been determined. In addition to these land for settlement areas, the Department is placing on the market ordinary Crown lands at Tutamoe, near Whangarei, eight sections, totalling 3034 acres of second-class land available on March 23rd. Five small grazing runs totalling 13,640 acres along the Esk river, 30 miles from Napier, are to be opened en April 2nd, and 25,460 acres of pastoral country in the Ashburton and Mackenzie counties. The Hillesden estate of 79,000 acres is the largest land for settlement area to, be subdivided for a considerable period. It will he thrown open on March 2nd in 43 sections, ranging In sizes of 83 acres yich agricultural land to 10,000 acres of pas-, toral country. The estate lies 20 miles west of Blenheim, in the Wairau and Waitopai valleys and includes.some very good agricultural land. It has the repn. tation of being healthy country for sheep, and the clip has realised top prices fop many years.