TAUPO PUMICE LANDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16798, 31 March 1919, Page 5

TAUPO PUMICE LANDS.

, ACT.JCS TOll SOLDI Elite, j iUi' (JOQ dc u. s o iiuated jii tho AV liotipf,,' »a]lc\, bctwsen Kotoma .uid Taupo. I li.no. been oNeied to the (la\c, nmcut I !•> t-lic uitrtfis for the settlement, oil solder. at .in aiciago puce oUa httU'l undci L2 .in acie. I The ihiG° estate* aic -\li T E A ailo's Rio.ull.ind-. Messis Ktopd and Wait*' Repot ca, .uid Mi AY Ci. But;hws' Stiatlimoio Of the to til aica ofieied to the- Government 4000 ac-irs Have d'eeu ploughed,, about; 4001 aeies bate been -mfaca-sown. 4000 acres mare .no s,eli-sown. and a. Rieftt deal more tan is* natural ieetl. 'Hie ownsio claim that onh about- 10 per peivt oi: the area is not, plousdiable Of tl<c lemaming 90 pei cent 30,009 acies aio drv flat, 13,000 acres aie swamp and dtamed swamp, 10,000 acics aie undulating land, and 35,000 aie plateau. The thiee propel ties arc cariimu: .'t piesent about iiSOO cattle, bheep, and 200 hoi sea The ortneis ctimuts that 300 .'settlers will be ab'e to make a comfortable liv-ng fion the landb. The top puce asked is about £cj an aorefor some ot the swamp Sacs, tie iMt'age, stated, being just under £2

Members of the Rotovua Chnmbqr of j Commerce lately organised a trip over the three properties, and returned full of praise cf the fmo crops of clever, turnips, and other fs3d to bs seen' wherever cultivation, ivas properly ,n hand. Farmers v.ho iverc iv-i'i tho party considered that soldier ssuLpis, if given proper tipiniiig, in the treatment of pnmics lands, ought lo beable to do quite as veil as the present ' occupier?. They Thought that the prospective settleis should be cmp'ovccJ on vages at. first, making improve- j ments on tli3 property and gaining first-hand 'knowledge of local farming I methods.