SALE OF KURI PARK ESTATE.
Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. reporfi as follows:— On account of Mr James Gray, of Messrs Reid and Gray, we have sold at a very satisfactory price his model farm, known as Kuri Park, containing 560 acres of first-class land, together wita splendid dwelling house of 10 rooms, manager's cottage, stable, woolshed, orchard, shrubbery, etc., to Mr Alexander Carnie, of Hindon. The property is subdivided into 19 paddocks, most of them in permanent pasture; 55 acres being prepared for next season's turnip crop. Thirty acres turnip land are being sown with wheat and grass, nine acres with oats and grass, 22 acres with grass and rape,, and 28 acres lea land with oats. Of the total area in grass, 48 acres are in one-year-old pasture end 38 acres in two-year-old pasture. About one-fcurth' of the estate is in beautiful native bush. The farm is a very choice one; it is in perfect order and great heart, never having had any grain crops taken off since Mr Gray acquired it, oats consumed on the place for .horse and sheep feed excepted. The land is very^rich, and grows grass, "grain, and root crops to perfection. At present some 800 first-class crossbred sheep are depastured on the property.
SALE OF KURI PARK ESTATE.
Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 17
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