THE WAIKATO ESTATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11843, 21 December 1901, Page 5

THE WAIKATO ESTATES.

prospects of EARLY opening. V* At » meeting of the OcHncil of the Auckland 111 l (jjiamber of Commerce, held yesterday, a let--1 g t ß r was read from the Premier stating that . : ' i the Chamber's request for a more rapid opening of the Waikato estates by the Assets [Board had been forwarded to the Minister - ■for Lands. ' ! ' ' ! •Mr G. Fowlds, M.H.R., stated that the /Assets Board was now much more alive than " & had over been before. Several estates j ' had been subdivided, and surveys were pro- j ' ' breeding on others. The Board had also made i arrangements to put up creameries, so that a | ' ' market - would sbo < provided on ; the. estates ' ■ 'ST people going into the dairying business, ■is " *, lC [ they were making arrangements with the Sairr Association to run the creameries. On t#ipfeSje< whole, ho believed that within, the next 12 months they would see a considerable development in the land sales by the Assets ] { -Board. "He had frequently talked with one member of tha Board, and ho believed ; that Ml jSfthe" Board e would dispose ■of their' estates on - ©I • terms nearly is liberal as under the Government ' land '■ settlement f policy, taking a, small deposit, and giving terms for the 1 balance. _ C The President' (Mr. D. 11. Caldwell) said ,< { the Government ought to have taken over those lands from „ the Assets Board. Great elans of money had been borrowed by the i ■> * Government, but the North had not been S. government, but the North had not been getting a particle of it, while largo estates | |ad been purchased in the South. Mr. Fowlds said he believed it would be -- t ),,Jfound that the .experience of the Government SIM in acquiring th(J last two estates in Hawke's gay would , pretty well stop the purchase of ' lands foi settlement altogether. y|v . — ..." - = 'iSSKIsS; :" " •' 1 '