Kōrero: Government and agriculture

South Island land purchases (2 o 2)

This map shows (in red) the 119 properties in the South Island purchased before 1912 under the Lands for Settlement Act 1894 and subsequently broken up into smaller farms. Most of the properties were sheep farms on the east coast. The properties in purple were Crown lands available for settlement.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: MapColl 830gbbd/1911-12/Acc.51764

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Tony Nightingale, 'Government and agriculture - Land reform and farmer education, 1890s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/19817/south-island-land-purchases (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Tony Nightingale, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008