NATIVE LAND
DEVELOPMENT PLAN BLOCK OF 734 ACRES AREA NEAR CAMBRIDGE Operations liavo started on the development of 7.U acres of scrub and fern land at Pukemoremore, near Cambridge, fox - native settlement. Once Crown land, in 1928 it was granted to various landless Waikato Maoris, must of whom were of the Ngatihtfua tribe, but practically 110 development followed, most of the land remaining idle, although the block is in a settled and closely-farmed district. With very few exceptions the owners did not live 011 the property. A small part of the area is swampy, but the bulk is open, rolling country. The Native Affairs Department, which has assumed control under the development scheme, is employing Maori labour, which will be increased as work progresses. The idea, is to cut the property into a number of small dairy farms when scrub has been cleared and new pasture properly established. Selected Maoris will be placed in these farms.) It will be some years, of course, before this will be attained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23616, 28 March 1940, Page 10
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168NATIVE LAND New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23616, 28 March 1940, Page 10
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