LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT
SOUTH ISLAND ESTATES. PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, April 7. . The Minister of Lauds stated to an interviewer this morning that tho Land Purchase Board was now inspecting various estates in Otago and Canterbury. The Government was not allowed under the new law to acquire estates during March, aa owners had that month in w hich to raise their harvest. The Board had not yet sent in its report. So far the South Island properties, especially those recently acquired for settlement, had been going off m a very satisfactory way, and tho number ot applicants had besn in excess of those for North Island estates.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 5
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106LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 5
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