POMAHAKA ESTATE.
At the piesent time the number of settlers on the Pwinahaka estate, according to tin: rvport of tin: Lauds and SSuivey Department, presented to Parliament last week, is 13, and the area occupied 3,129 acres at an annual rental of £515, including one temporary license over 10 acres at £1 per annum. The unlet area on March 31 was 4,224 acres, the annual rental of which is £670. The ainotnt of r.-nt collected during the year was £1)42, as against .£192 the previ us year. The total receipts from the commencement is £5 277. The number of houses on the estate is IS ; number of persons resident, 35 ; value of improvements effected ' £4,031. "The Crown lands ranger states that the oat crops on this°estßte are very fair this year, and the turnips are looking very well in most cases. The settler,- are now going in more for stock, and intend in tinfuture to do as little cropping as posa.ble. The low prices ruling for giain renders it impossible to make graingrowing pay, especially at such a distance from"the railway. Oats are, of course, generally speaking, the only grain crop that ca.i be grown on this land." The Minister recommends that the rentals be reduced all round.
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Lake County Press, Issue 980, 19 September 1901, Page 3
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