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Otago Witness, Issue 3336, 20 February 1918, Page 24

It was announced to the executive of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund Society on Thursday, by the chairman (Mr H. Holland), that the Government had purchased an estate at Southbridge. comprising 1200 acres principally of very rich agricultural land. An interesting sight can be seen from tho railway train near the bridge across the EVTanawatu River nt Longburn. .There aiv two paddocks—one covered nil over with penny-royal and the other as near perfection as any agricultural field can be. The two afford an instructive lesson—one in neglect, and tho other in up-to-date agriculture.—Manawafcu Standard.