OFFER TO GIVE FARM LANDS WORTH £10,000
(P.A.) HAWERA, Sept. 3. Farm lands conservatively valued at. more than £lO,OOO were offered to the Crown as a free gift for the settlement of returned servicemen by a prominent South. Taranaki pioneer, Mr John Richard Taylor, at a sitting of the Taranaki Land Sales Committee at Hawera. This was by way of a counter-pio-posal to the taking under the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act of 501 acres which comprise his homestead property. The committee was called to hear Mr Taylors objection to compulsory forfeiture, bui when his offer of two farm units at Hurleyville and 88 acres of the homestead property was announced, the committee adjourned proceedings sine die. ;<■ Mr Taylor’s objection to tne Crown’s taking his home farm of SUI acres was based on his attachmen to the property, which he had broken in from a rough state in 190 , and where he had since.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1947, Page 2
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