A motion urging the Government to speedily .open all unsettled ■Cro'wn and Native land along the route of .the,proposed East Coast ; raiil way was carried nt the conference of Auckland Railway Leagues/and Mr P. Keegan, of , Tano-a-tua, in supporting 'ths resolution/.quoted some interesting figure^ In the tlpotiki and Whakatane Counties alone, he said', there were 2,120,000 acres of, fertile land, or v 120,000 acres ■ iii excess of the area in the Poverty Bay district. This, area, too, Avas only about one-half of th© total area in the Bay of Plenty. In the two counties mentioned there vrere 1,500,000 acres of Native lands into Avhich an n-xe had not yet been put and which had not boon traversed even h\ the Native"; since li'ie Maori war. If they could get this land on toy the market; it wouJc? mean a' great thing for the cdVaitry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11863, 29 May 1909, Page 5
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