LAND SETTLEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 90, 13 April 1903, Page 2

LAND SETTLEMENT.

The Oommissioier of Grown Lands re turned to town ou Saturday, after an absence of over threj week* from New Plymouth, spent in an exploration tour through the Mokau, Ohura, an<i upper Wanganui country. Mr Mickmzi" left ordinary civilisition at Pitimak' l , on the Mokau—Te Kuitiro»d, andthxn took a zigzag courso in a southerly direction through the Crown Lands to the Wanganui Rivar, near . h<: mouth of the Oliu.a, and from shero through I hack country to Taumariinui —betwo> n Uppr Mokau and tho Seven suivojors are working with doub'e porters, supplemented by three roa<i surv«y parti< hj, all working und:r higli pressure, aud it is aoticipated that ov< r 100,000 aeris of new cjun'ry will ba thrown open rloso prior to the coming bush falling season. As

pr.iviouvly ivpoit d, a very large proportion of this land which is if I<>" elevation,issuited for dairying and t-t ok raising, ami many inquiries are made about i*. We uuderstartd that a good many of rh-i settlors who toafe up land a'; the Dejemier eale, havn made a start, and al?eidy hive g t burr.a, acd their grass s>wn on the cleared arta. Mr Mackenzie's trip, during the lust 10 days, was uvrreJ by b«i weather, causing the rivara to rise, a> d making the p ogress through the bus'n districts laborious and difficult,