LAND FOR SETTLEMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 5

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT

THE WAIRAKAU ESTATE. GOOD FAT STOCK FARM. i — The area of 2028 acres of the Wairakau Estate, Te Aroha, owned by MrJames McNieol, which has been purchased by the Government, .is . situated on the main road to Manawaru and Matainata, about five miles south of Te Aroha. The property extends for two iiiiles along the road and is backed by the Te Aroha Ranges. Two hundred acres lie on the Wajliou River side of tlie Shaftesbury Road and are included in the area purchased. The intersecting road is metalled and in good order. The land is flat along the road frontage and for a mile back to the foothills, while a small proportion of the purchased area is hilly and undulating. Many miles of drains intersect the property, which is exceptionally well watered. At present, states the Te Aroha correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, tin- flats are carrying a‘rich sole of mixed English grasses and the sheep and fat cattle grazing on it are in first-class condition. • The land, which is specially suited for the early fat-lumb market,, bus been farmed by the late Mr. Duncan McNicol and Mr. Janies McNieol for 4; years, and the fat stock produced on it during that period have always realised high prices.