Land Settlement.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 8 June 1891, Page 3

Land Settlement.

© (Wanganui Herald.) It is matter for congratulation that the very favorable conditions offered by the present Government to bona fide settlers in acquiring land suitable for farming purposes are meeting with that ready acceptance such a desirable measure so justly deserves. It is doubly pleasurable, too. to glean that the acknowledged advantages of climate and fertility of soil. in the North Island are gradually being ] recognised by our. Southern neighbors, ! many of whom, it may be mentioned, are just at the present time of a migratory turn of mind. Owing principally to their inability to procure land at! a sufficiently cheap price, and taking the foregoing into consideration, several Canterbury families have recently left that j province to settle in this island. In one] case the holding was found to be too small ] to allow of the sons receiving their share,, and the members of the family,'not wishing to be separated, chose rather to seek, fields fresh and pastures new than pay a' price thought to be exorbitant for the acquirement of a large area. In another instance, several young fellows who have been farming land for some time past on Bank's Peninsula, considering no doubt that they were wasting their fragrance on the desert air, and their time and money 011 a seemingly profitless undertaking, have likewise practically settled the question for themselves as to which is the best | part of the colony for the display of their talents and energies as tillers of the soil, and shakiug the southern dust [off their shoes have determined to take up Crown lands in the North Island to settle on. Such facts as these speak eloquently, and certainly the point of the moral lies in the application of it.