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The other two types of houses are of brick, and 

 cost 360 and 375 a pair. The cost of construction 

 of the wells and cesspools brings the total figure in 

 each case up to about an additional 25. 



The houses are well built, and the details carefully 

 thought out. It will be seen from the illustrations 

 that they are also of pleasing appearance. 



Character of Tenants. 



It is hoped that thirty families will be settled on 

 the land in October; five are already established, 

 and a sixth is coming immediately. The tenants 

 are being very carefully selected out of the large 

 number of applications which have been received 

 from all parts. About forty local people have 

 applied ; this fact alone augurs well for the success 

 of the scheme. There is no shrewder judge of what 

 is going to be a benefit to him in the long run than 

 the average local working man, arising partly from 

 his knowledge of what return the particular land 

 he knows is likely to give him for his labour. It 

 has already been pointed out in previous chapters 

 how, in all the undertakings we have considered 

 for establishing colonies, the local man has always 

 steadily kept out of them in the first instance. 

 The fact that so many of these men have applied 

 in this case shows the confidence which exists 

 amongst them as to the possibilities in connection 

 with its development. A few of the prospective 

 tenants have a very little capital of from 50 to 

 100, but at least 80 per cent, have none at all. 



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