CLARENCE VALLEY

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 166, 16 July 1920, Page 5

CLARENCE VALLEY

SETTLEMENT OF RETURNM)

SOLDIERS

APPEAL BY MARLBORGUGH

MEMBEiRS^

[FROMi OEH COHRESPONPENT.] / '. , WELLINGTON-, July 15. '$&& Ministerl for Lands was ap- ; projached. by Messrs Forbes and >. McC;allum .to-day with the object of ' calling attention; ■ to-- the good possibilities of opening up a large area of the Clarence Valley for isoldier settlement. -The land; was almost wholly. Crown and pastoral leases, most of which were about to fall in. . They stated that it 'was'a portion of- Marlborough which had been overlooked. As it was well back from the coast the land was well sheltered, find if made accessible by a 40~milo road would, instead of being held by one pr two men, provide holdings'where 30. >br 40 ■'soldiers could run lip to 800 sheep each. The estimated cyst of the road was £30,000, the'cutlet to the district being the. Keker:iagu River, 50 miles south of Blenheim. The Minister promised to secure a: report from the Orown Land Offie-v s and cond^li1 the possibilities of utilising the country for soldic; settlers.