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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1913, Page 8

Auctioneers and Land Agents McLAUCHLAN AND CO., Real Estate Agents, BLENHEIM. Cheap Properties. n-|AA DEPOSIT for 2 acres, 3tIUU corner lot, 9 chains frontage; new house with bathroom, pantry, scullery, hot and oold water, necessary out-houses; part in lucerne, part in orchard. Very rich soil. Low price, as owner desires to effect quick sale. £20 deposit will secure you a good Section and new house close to town, in a growing suburb. £2o deposit for 3-acr© lot, Rirersdale. Price, £120 per acre. FARMS. 160 Acre Dairy Farm, very rich land, one mile to factory; good road, well fenced, with very great future value Price only £35 per acre. Terms: £1300 cash; balance over period from 7 to 20 years at 5 per cent. 100 Acre Farm close to town. "Would make an ideal dairy farm. Terms: £1000 cash; bateiace at 5 per cent. 73 Acres, 2 miles from town. Price, £35 per acre. SPRINGLAftIDS. We have several 5 to 10-acr© lots which, must soon sell at their present price, thus forcing future buyers further out. BUILDING SECTIONS. £5 deposit will »secu.re a good quarter-acre for £75 close to town. Easy terms for paying off. FAftNHASVB SUBURB Is to-day a model suburb, many fine residence are already up, and more building. Secure a lot here before too late. WALTER STREET. A 10-aere lot is now sub-divided and opened up to the.public at £125 per half-acre for those racing the new road just formed. Buy Im Blenheim TO-DAY. i Where else in the Dominion* can you find land equal to the Wairau Plain for soil, climate, situation, and future prospects? yet owing to being the centre of aJi old agricultural district is the most backward in every way of any province in the Dominion. Think ! Just forty miles of railway built in forty yeans, a slow and obsolete train service; no Government Experimental Farms as: in other districts; many large estates to be settled almost on -the town boundary; many large farms "held by wealthy owners in native grass, which should be" in lucerne in small holdings aiid. used for dairying; a good river with 100-ton boats instead of 1000-ton boats. Yet Realise Blenheim is being forced ahead. A progressive Harbor Board intend to open the river, which means untold wealth to the district. The expensive Main Trunk Line must stop at the Clarence Bridge in preference to the- cheap revenue-pro-ducing one up the Wairau Valley to the West Coast. Every argument is for the latter, and against the former. HILLERSDEM ESTATE of 160,000 acres will be opened up for settlement in about six months' time. There euro 12,000 acres of fiat land in front which will grow lucerne for dairying. There will be over 1000 applications. Many other estates must soon follow1, if only for defence pur-, poses, which will mean in> a year or so the doubling of the land tax on large holdings suitable for settlement. Besides) what is the use of increasing the birth-rate or bringing out immigrants when 19 persons hold over one million acres in Marlborough, thus causing it to be hide-bound, unprogressive, and depopulated, and to have fewer residents per square mile than any other ! province in New Zealand. If New , Zealanders do not develop their land an Asiatic Power soon will if the country has not the population andi wealth to defend itself. Canada, United States, and Australia realise the danger, and New Zealand must soon do so, and then the land will be settled and population pour in. Buy Your Section PJIOM McLAUCHLAftI & Co. while cheap, as where else can you buy quarter-acres for £75, apart from the easy terms. Blenheim's population and wealth must soon double with, the country being settled.