WORKMEN'S HOMES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 81

WORKMEN'S HOMES.

LAND AT BELLEKNOWES.

(Fhoii Our Owns Cohbcespo3:.deutO WELLINGTON, September 20.

I understand that the Government has decided to purchase 11 acres, the balance of the Belleknowes Estate, near Dunedin, for workmen* home-. The price is said to bo £250 an aero. Mr Millar has for some tirae past been urging the Go\crnmenfc to acquire tin* property.

CHRISTCHURCH. September 20

A petition for presentation to Parliaol iLe Little Hiver dish-ict, pointing out ihat a e,ite for village settlement under good

r auspices is badly wanted there for 03=1:31 labourers such as e.hoai-ci'-. qrass-^eeders, and others, who have no chance af present of acquiring permanent homes in <i distr.ct which afford,-, employment at good -nagc*. BeUecn Okin KiVpi" and the -Main coach road 1o Akaroa, lli^ro is. so the petition says, a block of 60 acres Natn c land eminently suited for village settlement purposes. TI.-C Go\crnment is urged, with the consent of Native owners, to acquire tliH land, giving Maoris an equivalent in land on the estate recently acquired from Mr White.

The Wakatipu Mail states that Mr E. E Stark, eleclricvil engineer, has been engaged during the week invesi igating the matter of the water power contained in the Ono-milo and Brewery Crocks, with a view to converting h, into electrical energy.