SUBURBAN LAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16491, 5 March 1914, Page 9

SUBURBAN LAND.

A GOVERNMENT PURCHASE.

THE ORAKET NaTH’E BLOCK. [Fhom Our Coheesponbknt.l "WELLINGTON, March 4. The Orakei liiock or Maori land, a valuable suburban area with a Iona; frontage to Auckland Harbour, has bcen-.boiight7b.r"tbe GoTernment; which has secured, leasdibld and freehold J interests of ower 500 acres. 'This reaves 40 acres which cannot bo alienated from the Natives. The Prime Minister informed, the correspondent of the a Lyttelton Times ”* that the block- will he cut up for suburban holdings. Is only fifteen minutes’ steam by the ferry from Auckland City. There is a prospect of the Auckland City Council approaching the Government to buy the block. Legislation with that object '• has already come, before Parliament, wf