WAIKATO LAND VALUES.
I SALES «■» 30 YEARS AGO. SALES OF 30 YEARS AGO. ONLY £2 AN ACRE PAID. *C 'st TELEGRAPH.— OWN COKBES3POXDENT.] |-i;, HAMILTON. Tuesday. m Some interesting facts concerning the airly history of the Waikato ara men--1 tioned by Mr. S. Earle Vaile, of WaioK'r tape in a letter to the New Zealand Coif! operative Dairy Company, Ltd - P* Mr. Vaile mentions that in 1896 ho I lold the land adjoining the Tamahere C , sUtion (now Matangi) where the glaxo W" f«tory is situated, fenced and in grass, m lor £2 per acre. The Briarley estate of H 1000 acres, adjoining, with a kauri house M which cost £1000, and outbuildings, was W. told at £2 5s per aero on very easy §§ ms , The sales, even at these very - low prices, were- not easy to effect. These ; ; figures of nearly 30 years Dack are exp tamely interesting when compared, with ••- the high values ruling to-day in the same ■■'. aistrict. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18632, 13 February 1924, Page 13
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