LAND SETTLEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 288, 9 November 1912, Page 4

LAND SETTLEMENT.

SURVEYING THE WAIHAU AND NGAROTO BLOCKS. Mr.. R. T. Sadd, Crown Lands Commissioner, who has just returned from a visit to Waihau and Ngaroto, informed a reporter this morning that he went over the Waihau estate with the surveyor. Mr. Gray, and decided upon the road routes and scheme of subdii ision. He also inspected the Ngaroto estate with Mr. Cagney, the surveyor. The schemes of reading and subdividing have been forwarded to Wellington for the approval of the Secretary for Lands. On receipt of his approval, the running in of subdivision lines n ill be put in hand at once. The areas of blocks vary from 16u acres up to 1000 acres. Another surveyor, Mr. W. S. Thompson, will go out on these estates to assist Mr. Cagney, and his addition will make a total of four surveyors on Waihau and Nga■roto. The surveyors were getting on well with the subdivision of Sherenden and Tunanui. Another surveyor. Mr. W. M. Atkinson, will go out ! next week to help with the surveywork. : Mr. Sadd met Mr. Mason Cham- 1 bers, chairman of the County Coaucil, on Thursday, and together they went over the main road through Sherenden with a view to picking out places as quarry sites , resting places for stock, and noting portions of the road where an increase m the width would greatly improve and straighten the grades. As it would be impossible to complete the final survey in all its details before the estates are taken over, it lias been decided to issue sale posters of provisional areas, which can be corrected when the survey is completed ami titles are issued. The whole of the country is looking beautiful as the result of the extra rainfall during the last few months. This is so on Sherenden (■specially, and it was the Commissioner’s opinion that if Sherenden continued to obtain the rainfall it. [ has received during the pasi few j months the bulk of it would be suit- i able for dairying purposes, and more ; than doubled in value. English j grasses and clovers are glowing! there in great profusion. 1 i