FIFTY-YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 10

FIFTY-YEARS AGO.

■;.'■.,>--rr —: —*» rr- •■„..,.■., ..;.,•• ■: ■■ ...; i •; .;■;..; . ■-..(■ ; PEOPLING THE WAIKATO. - _ 0 ■ ;•; ENCOURAGING IMMIGRANTS. ' ' ;> ■ : v>^# v ■'.;; ;;•■',' 'M (Prom the HEEAW of jiorcli 9,1804.) ' lNSTttTrcr:ovß!liavo beori'fonvar<li»cl by the outgoing mail yesterday : '' to the Colonial Treasurer, Mr. , Reader Wood!, now m. England, lo commence the enrolment of people for the Waikato country, and to set tho matter fully and successfully in motion; previous to hi*«t«rn. Persons of al means and cUsscs will bo invited to avail themselves of the opportunity of settlemont, and inducements calculated to attract each in turn will be liberally offered... to the labouring clams a free passage and the grant of W acres of land and a town allotment, hi return for military service of short duration— the man of moderate capital tho grant of 40 acres for himself and each of his family—and to those who may require it, the passage 01 IhMMolveß and their families will be paid, and laud allotted to them in proportion as they may undertake to repay the first cost of bringing them out. In all cases, howover those only who are selected by special; agents will he received. Advantages such; as those which the Government have now to offer intending settlors are not, indeed, Much a* should bo lightly flung about amongst whoever may choose to scramble for them . . . There is abundance ot tho very richest soil for occupation, much of it possessing the advantage of watercarriage, land like that at Opotiki, Rangia*»hia, and elsewhere, which requires nothing more than to be turned over to produce at once crops of wheat, potatoes, ana corn, in a luxuriance which would positively astonish tho occupiers of even the best "farms around Auckland.