HIGH LAND VALUES.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13391, 12 February 1914, Page 4

HIGH LAND VALUES.

£85 PER. ACRE FOR PASTORAL

HOLDINGS.

[United Press Association.]

Feflding, Feb. 11. The most successful sale of grazing and fattening iand ever held here took place to-day, when 100* acres of the Kawa Kawa oalate, bv-longmg to the trustees of the Riddiford estate, were offered in sections of from 10 to 50 acres. The highest price realised was. £85' for a 10' acre block. Trio whole piece averaged £65 an acre. Several sections went over £80. Though the prices were high, the genera] opinion is that the investments w« re quite safe. '