MESSRS. GRANT AND FOSTER: PROPOSED SPECIAL SETTLEMENT AT TE AROHA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5885, 27 September 1880, Page 5

MESSRS. GRANT AND FOSTER: PROPOSED SPECIAL SETTLEMENT AT TE AROHA.

o [from our own correspondent.] Hamilton, Saturday. A gentleman here has received a communis cation by the late mail, from Messrs. Grant and Foster, stating that they are prepared to take up land at Te Aroha for a special settlement, if they can come to terms with the Government as to price, &c. The Government ought indeed to be glad to give any reasonable terms to secure the settlement of such a class of immigrants a3 those Messrs. Grant and Foster speak of, men of ample means, and who would not settle on blocks less than from 400 to 1000 acres of lar d. Such men are made of the best possible stuff to form good pioneers in a rough country, and a settlement of this class in the Te Aroha wonld mean a very large amount of employment to the labouring classee, and the settlement of the land in smaller holdings around them. It is time that the Government looked less to the direct return of so much an acre for the public lands parted with, than to the bond fide settlement of the lands by the right class of settlers, and the indirect gain accruing by consequently increased returns of revenue in taxes paid, and increased wealth-producing power of the colony.