PARLIAMENTARY TOUR
(BY TELEGA*PH —PP-FSS ASSOCIATION.'* iWHAKATANE, Feb. 16. The Parliamentary party making the East Coast tour is at Whakatane tonight. On Thursday the party goes to Ruatoki, on the edge of the Urewera terra incognita, 650,000 acres of land, and the famous retreat of the Maoris. The Maoris will gather at Ruatoki to meet the oarty, who will then return through the Opouria Valley, once a sheep station of three families producing £8000 worth of wool. It was cut up in 1896 by the State, the purchase price being £24,000. and it now supporting sixty families and producing over £100,000 worth of butter and cheese in addition to stock. Settlers have refused £120 per acre for country which will carry a cow to the acre.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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126PARLIAMENTARY TOUR Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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