SELWYN PLANTATIONS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 8

SELWYN PLANTATIONS.

-4 DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE(SPECIAL TO "THS PRS-B."), '. WELLINGTON, December,!. When tho Reserves Enabling ~»'•" • was being discussed in the HouMy tonight, Mr C. A. C. Hardy object^ .to clause 78 of the Bill, dealing with .te old Selwyn subdivision and the plasty tions thereon. The new counties at W* present time occupied, he said, 93 per cent, of theso reserves, and the peopKj took exception to the reserves Wang ■managed by those who had little interest in them. It was right jjhM «w counties should manage their wn Potations, and the men ey receiral irom the plantations should be USM «"■ making new plantations. Mr Witty said it was stranjja that Mr Hardy should hare cliaa|fed rfflj mind. He agreed with him (M«,Wwn and Mr Rhodes that this clau« diouW go into the BUI, and before he »«. Mr Rhodes had asked Mr Ell to watch the clause and see that it went i«,W»Bill. The trouble was that two * three little local bodies wanted to J»« these plantations lor revenue P ur Pj***. but they wero not going to get tflfiß. •Mr Hardy had been guilty of a chang* of front/ He (Mr Witty) wanted tte plantations for Selwyn and thei . no» of Canterbury, if necessary* The proposed Board would be exactly the same as now, except that the Gevernmn* were to have a nominee. Rather tnaa agree to Mr Hardy's suggestion, W would see that the plantations were w bo divided up " « ~ Mr Hardy said Mr Witty hadtoM j tho truth, but not the whole t::nt_. . The Speaker ruled that Mr Hardy could not use the latter expression* .Mr Hardy said he respected w Speaker's ruling. He read .a letter from Mr George Bedford stating tt»6 they had accidentally lieard that 33J Witty was bringing in a Bill, to flew with "tho plantations, and askmg tMJ the matter be deferred until the. new counties had got into working order, the counties being the counties of ,£*": wvn, Tawera, and Malvern. H.«» shown this letter to Mr XlAtg. *■ reply to the statement that the o°gw Council had accidentally heard **■* the Bill, .Mr Witty read a telegram »« had sent to the County Council, that tbe matter was coming up i». UM ' House. , . In Committee Mr Hardy more-, w striko out the provision for the appow**ment of a Board. » This was lost by 43 votes to 22, a»0 tlie clause war, nassed as printed.