CLOSER SETTLEMENT
MASTERTON'S HOPES. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT MAISTERTON. .February 7. For years Masterton has been agitating tor the cutting up of the large estates in its vicinity, hut the day when the town shall herald the establishment of another settlement similar to the successful ono at Langdole is apparently far off. Those who are interesting Ihconceives in the progress of Masterton, knowing it will only be brought by closer stittHement, had hopes that the Government would purchase.; a block of 18,000 acres on the East Coast.or the Rowlands estate, near Masterton. The weeks went by and no definite reply was received from the Land Purchase Commission, and they began to think that the spectre they had clung to tenaciously for years was going to assume concrete form, but thedr hopes were dashed to the ground to-day when the Closer Settlement League received, a letter from tho chairman of tho Board of Purchase Commissioners convey!nrr the information that the Government did not intend to negotiate for the block of 18,000 acres, and that the Rowlands estate was declined by the Government tome time ago and it was not proposed to reopen this matter.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19100208.2.77
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 8
Word Count
193CLOSER SETTLEMENT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.