Now there is the chance for all and sundry to come and get land cheap. It is hoped it will not be a drug on the market and that Kuling will find fresh purchasers to bring new funds to replenish an ex-j P! hausted exchequer. There will, however, be no inducement to speculators. The Kuling boom is over and only those who contemplate actual residence here will be tempted to invest. There are now a number of sites and buildings for sale at very reasonable rates, but without attracting purchasers.
The extension will not be immediately available, for much has to be done to survey the same into lots and to build roads. The absence of water, too, on a considerable portion of the same will render much of the land very undesirable. The pick of the entire valley is now built over, all the other sites will be more or less outside the favoured limits.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.