LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNMENT’S BIG PURCHASE
AN ESTATE IN BAY OF PLENTY PROVIDING WORK FOR 500. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 19. The biggest \single (land purchase since the land for settlement activities of Sir John Maclvenzie lias been completed by the Government’s acquisition of the Troutbeck Block, Bay of Plenty, known as the Galatea estate, It is nine miles long and four miles wide and comprises 22,01)0 acres which, when fenced, grassed and roaded. wilt provide about 150 dairy farms. The cost of the area is £IOO,OOO. An access road will be immediately built to the railway at Te Teko. Some men are already being transferred to tins work, which, with other developmental activities. will give employment to 500.
it is intended completely to grass and fence the estate before throwing the land open for .selection by intending dairy farmers.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 January 1931, Page 9
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