LAND ACQUIRED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 26, 29 December 1945, Page 2

LAND ACQUIRED

SERVICEMEN’S SETTLEMENT,

Until the end of November a total of 14b,78U acres of land had been acquiree. under tne provisions ot the email Farms Act tor tne establishment of ex-servicemen, says tne monthly review issued by the Rehabilitation Department. 111 audition to this area, 'a 23 acres had been acquired unde 1 the compulsory provisions of the oeivicemen s Settlement and Land Sales The most recent addition to the above total is a property of almost 1,000 acres in the Mar borough land district, about 16 miles soutn-east ot Blenheim. Previously held by Mr C. D Cunningnam and the estate ot tne late Mr William Cunningham, this property is good sheep country wi a considerable area suitable for cropP Altogether until November 30, the number of properties acquired Section 51 of the Land Sales Act was 109 single units and 42 capable ot subdivision into 108 single units making 217 units m all, with a total of 44,707 acres. Properties balloted for by ex-ser-vicemen during November comprised three sheep sections in the Kenilworth Farm Settlement near Titiroa, Southland, one dairying and cropping section in the Ivaikainui settlement near Kaiapoi, two agricultural sections in tho Tua Marina settlement near Blenheim, and four dairying sections in the Milson Farm Settlement near Palm erston North. - _ - •