The Pahiatua Land Sale.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1869, 11 August 1886, Page 2

The Pahiatua Land Sale.

The sales of Crown Lauds aro not so well managed now as they were in the old days when Mr Bunny was Provincial Secretary, and the lata Mr Hpldsworth, Commissioner of Crown Lands. In those days the approaching land sales were always advertised for at least six weeks before they took place, and maps and plans were distributed in every necessary locality. Now, it is different. A correspondent of the New Zealand Times thus writes from Pahiatua with reference to the approaching iaud sale at that place;—■“ I want to draw special attention to an advertisement in your columns of 60,000 acres of land for sale, on all sorts of conditions, and in all sorts of places. The first sale is on 23rd August, and yet no plans ate out. How many times am I to tell the wiseacres closeted in Wellington that we ought to have the plans at least two months before the sale ? Do you realise that although I am here on the spot, the land ialyet, even to me, a terra incognita '! Nobody knows how to get in, or how to find the roads and sections when they Jo get in. Besides, even if the roads wore passable tor horses, it takes a lot of preanangement and time to inspect a large block. The result of this muddling is that men buy land they have never seen and then repent and blame the system. The system is right enough, and so is the land. The only fault is that the plans are delayed and the roads are not conspicuously indicated. I believe that the moat important block (8000 acres in small sections) is approached by a road running west from the main road, but though I have ridden past twenty times, I do not know the turning ; there is no mark ; there is nothing,but the silent aisle of Tawa.”