IMMIGRATION SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 6

IMMIGRATION SCHEME.

SETTLING PUMICE LANDS. * USING . BRITISH CAPITAL. 1 80,000 ACRES 'AT . TOKOROA, j 1 [BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORnESPuNDEKT.v|I I PTJTABUKU,' Monday. J i After a long ti'mo'in \ New Zealand 1 viewing 'properties ' suited . for settlement 1 purposes, Mr. Leslie McArthur is return." /I ing* : to ~ : Great Britain ; with > • data with re. Bpect. to a: project iu the country near f Tokoroa, - on the Taupo-Totara Timber 1 Company's line. "Friends and relatives ;{,, I Britain .requested ■ Mr.'■■ McArthur .'"to sub, II mit ito .them, some, sound scheme in tlw §1 colonies for investment of their capita!," H where it would earn a fair return without * being subjected to the exceptionally heavy i taxation, that has ruled in /Britain' /sin&lff 1 the war. ' -. "' 'Mr. McArthur / investigated" sev.»rel % schemes in New Zealand, including tha I Tokoroa country.- Hers • he' spent "sonja § weeks in a • thorough investigation ; of/.'tSjeflil district, during which time he was' mtt * by the local landowners. ii They 'ten'ta' \ tively offered him in all about' 80,000 I acres—l2s. square miles—of virgin' coun- 1 try for settlement iby immigrants,; jftti<i i gave him full: details of the cost of. Dei : j veloping it, probable /returns, etc. Mr. •' $ McArthur's proposal' is. that the capital j offering should be organised to ' establish' ■'■ { private immigration" settlements on- a common plan. i The Tokoroa proposition, said* 3fr. Mo. ■ ; Arthur; was the finest for his purpose-tha6 * had been (submitted to him. .'/Rail com-, j munication wap- already provided'%'-'*W " ■> timber company's / ; line; • the country ' wai open' and i could' readily: be' laid down . in} pasture;- 1 telephone facilities' and electric* power was available; -and. -sub-division?; | roads should /cost little for' cbh'struclf6nif| ; h Mr.' McArthur consulted the Prime Minis- '■ \ ter, Mr. Masseyj on important aspects of;!. ! the scheme. ■ and; also obtained • additional!! | data .from the. Auckland Lands office prior , ! to leaving Auckland for England directs;The. landowners interested ; have also ap|lg [ pointed a special representative in • Britain to co-operate with Mr. McArthur -in bring. . I lag the'scheme to fruition. '■ '• ','■'':';..