WESTLAND SPECIAL SETTLEMENT

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1726, 18 February 1874, Page 4

WESTLAND SPECIAL SETTLEMENT

The following is the text of Mr Vogel's memorandum r3specting the proposed experiment : —

Special settlements of 100,000 acres, of which about 60,000 acres will be set apart or 260 families, say, 1000 adults, the balance to be made a forest reserve, to be retained by the Government. Each adult to purchase fifty acres at per acre per annum for seven years. The Government to offer employment to male adults for two years, three days & week, or alternate weeks, at per day, eithar in making roads or cutting down trees on the Government reserve ; but the Government not to be bound to employ more than 200 adults at one time, and no adult to be so employed for more than one year. The Government, after the cutting down of suitable trees on a portion of the reserve, to offer sites to persons, on which to erect saw-mills, on condition of their purchasing the logs supplied by the Government, at an agreed price. The General Government to advance for roads, &c, not exceeding £ ,to be refunded out of the proceeds of the sale of the land and the receipts of the forest reserves. The cost of sending the immigrants to be defrayed by the Immigration Department. The Provincial Government to guarantee to refund in seven years, unless the land be taken under the Immigration and Public Works Act.