EXPIRING PASTORAL LEASE.
"CLOSES SETTLEMENT DEMANDED. WELLINGTON, August 27. The Government has decided to seF tip an informal commission, consisting oi Messrs Robert Guthrie (Mackenzie County), Hugh M. Reeves (Ashburton)^ and Richard Parish (Ashley), to co-operate with the commissioner- - under the Land Act m -advian^ ' the Crown Lands Board regarding .the - sjrtfc division of a number of pastoral runs in. 'Canterbury. The leases expire on February 28, 1911, .and there" is considerable , agitation for . closer settlement of tße \»k areas, whidi aggregate over 1,500,000 acres.
For woojpcMMa. windmills, vamps, ancl ■mmping vksta. oeasult Nimrao «nd Blair.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 9
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96EXPIRING PASTORAL LEASE. Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 9
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