LAND SETTLEMENT
THE WAIKATO SOCIETY The first definite stops in connection with the Waikato Land Settlement Society’s scheme since the raising of £IO,OOO by public Satbscript ion last, April, and the receipt of £IO,OOO from the Auckland Savings 'Bank, has been taken by the society. Negotiations have just been completed for the purchase of 840 acres of partly-improved land at Koto-o-rangi, near Cambridge, from Mr P. C. Threlkeld.
It is proposed to employ several dozen men in clearing, ploughing and fencing the land, after which the area will be subdivided into lf» farms of from *>o to 70 acres each. A large hut will be built on the centre of the propel y to accommodate the first workmen employed, and later cottages will be built on the smaller sections.
When these cottages tire ready married unemployed men will be housed in them, rent free, and they will be. given the use of a cow. The men will be employed co-operatively in breaking-in, grassing, fencing anti erecting buildings on the other sections. When the preliminary work is completed the farms will be allotted to suitable men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 5
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185LAND SETTLEMENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 5
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