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1941 under the conditions that the farm would remain free of developments, not open to the
general public, and the Hare family be allowed to retain five morgen (4.25 hectares) of land
near the seashore as private property, in perpetuity, for the erection of 5 holiday cottages (116) .

Later, in 1941, Council was able to purchase the area of land owned by the estate of David
Cornelis De Villiers. In 1886 De Villiers purchased the farm Krom River from which he
appears to have run a profitable fishing business. As the years of the post-South African War
depression set in, and much of the land in this part of the Peninsula became financially
unsustainable for most, De Villiers is on record expanding his land holdings with the further
purchases in 1904 of the northern section of Olifantsbos, Somerset Farm with Annex
(Theefontein), and the adjacent and still un-named Cape Farm 1030 - first granted to Petrus
Kirsten in 1822 (117) . It is this entire property which the heirs of the De Villiers estate sold to
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the Divisional Council of the Cape on November 17 , 1941 for the total sum of £11,700.
(118)
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Nearly a year later on November 27 , 1942 Josephine Ethel Minicki sold the larger portion of
the farm Klassjagers (1,345.9993 morgen in extent) south of Plateau Road to the Divisional
Council for £8,500 (119) , except for an area of 37.1093 morgen surrounding the original
erfpacht land of Jeremias Auret Jnr. This remaining land also included 3.3285 morgen leased
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since June 27 1939 to the Union Defense Force for the purpose of a training camp that came
to be known as Klaasjagersberg Training Ground and Barracks (120) .

Also in 1942 negotiations were completed by which two tracts of government land to the
north of Smith’s farm, eastward from Hoek van Bobbejaan to False Bay and then north, were
granted to the Divisional Council. This included a section of land north of Plateau Road
which (being outside the intended boundary of the future reserve) become the base for the
Smitswinkel Bay Divisional Council Forestry Station for many years (120) .

Next, Council set its sights on the Kallis family properties at Olifantsbos. With the death of
their mother in 1943 the brothers Frederick Walter and Mathys Christian Kallis readily sold
their share in the property to Council for £1,250. Then in 1947 the remaining brothers,
Johannes Stephanus Christoffel, Peter George Rodgers, Joseph Gabriel (Junior), and
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Cornelius Jacobus sold their sections for £7,000 except for 1/21 share of their farm. This
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