“The Press” In 1866
January 23 WEST COAST LAND.—We cannot exactly understand the object of the course taken in the Provincial Council the other night by the members for the goldfields in advocating the suspension of all sales of land for the present on the West Coast. Such a course can, we should have thought, injure no-one but the inhabitants of Westland, and most of all the diggers. The great want bf the district is—roads, not only dray roads for opening up the country, but tracks ... In the course of time these tracks will be converted into roads, and
what was begun to suit the miner will ultimately suit the farmer. But how can this be done without money? and if the land be not sold, where is the money to come from? ... We have heard that at meetings held on the West Coast it was resolved to try and stop the sales of land, in order that the revenues to be derived from that source should be untouched until Westland shall have had the opportunity of obtaining from the General Assembly an Act for constituting it into a separate« province, and thus shall be able to start with all its land revenues in hand.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 12
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