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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1913, Page 8

Auctioneers and Land Agents / I McLAUCHLAN ' AND CO., j Real Estate Agents, BLENHEIM. Cheap Properties. Oi A A DEPOSIT for 2 acres, dW IUU corner lot, 9 chains frontage; new house with bathroom, pantry, scullery, hot and oold water, necessary out-houses; part in luoerne, 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. £25 deposit for 3-acr© lot, Riversdale. Price, £120 per acre. FARRftS. 160 Acre Dairy Farm, very rich land, one mile to factory; good road, well fenced, with very great future v*alue 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:---£IOOO cash; balance at 5 per cent. 73 Acres, 2 miles from town. Price, £35 per acre. SPRBNGLAND3. We have several 5 to IC^acr© lots' whicfe must soon sell at their present price, thus forcing future buyers further out. BUILDING SECTIONS. £5 deposit will secure a good quarter-aore for £75 close to town. Easy terms for paying off. FARNHAM SUBURB Is to-day a. model suburb, many fine residence are already up, and more building. Secure a lot .here before too late, i WALTER STREET. A 10,-acre lot is now sub-divided and opened up to the public at £125 per half-acre for those facing the new road just formed. Buy in Blenheim TO-DAY. 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 an 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 years* 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 and 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 distriot. 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 AVest Coast.. Every argument is for tlie latter, and against the former. HILLERSDEN ESTATE of 160,000 acres will be opened up for settlement in about six months' time. There are 12,000 acres of flat land in front which will grow lucerne for dairying. There will be over 1000 applications. Many other estates must soon-follow, if only for defence purposes, 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 Marlborougih, thus causing it to be hide-bound, unprogressive, and depopulated, and to have fewer residents per square mile than anyi 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 and 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 FROM McLAUGHLAf^ & Co. I while cheap, as where else can you buy quarter-acres for £75, .apart from the eavsy terms. Blenheim's population and wealth must soon double with the country being settled.