GOLD MINERS' GRIEVANCES.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7359, 11 July 1889, Page 5

GOLD MINERS' GRIEVANCES.

|Bt Telegraph.] [FROM OUR COBBB3POKDRKT.] WELLINGTON. July 10. There is also under consideration of the Goldfielda Committee, a petition from the Miners' Association of Central Otago, which was forwarded to the Government and by them transmitted to the Committee. The petitioners ask for the abolition of the export duty on gold, and recommend that for the purpose of mating up the loss of revenue to the County Councils, caused by the loss of the gold duty, all parcels of land held for miningpurposes shall be subject to County or other local Government rates, also that the rente from occupation licenses on the goldfields shall be made county revenue, and that Government be recommended to assign a portion of the rents from pastoral leases to county funds. In the next place they wish the gold miners of this colony placed in a better position for forwarding gold in quantities to the Australian mints, and with a view to preventing tail-race robberies being: so common they ask that the punishment for this offence be made more deterrent. Finally, they wish the rents from licensed holdings fixed at the uniform «.nnn«J rate of 10s an acre, with a deduction of one-third for holdings coming Wider Section 13 of the Minine Act. 1888.