A SAWMILLERS' DIFFICULTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 4

A SAWMILLERS' DIFFICULTY.

KIGHTS l ROADS AND TRAMWAYS' Of considerable interest to sawmillers and property • holdorsi was. a matter which wasi brought under tho notice of the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) by a deputation "which was introduced by Mr. Jennings, M.P., terdayi .. i, j.;. ■;. ■■. ; '/. -~. ,■.,.■ ."• ■~'■. ;■ ■ vi"*! 1 t ß l* $ Mr. Myers said that Section 184 of the Public Works Act gave personß who owned timber or-the right to. ■,work_- timber the right- to , go-before a magistrate where ; there was no practicable r S ad !? d obtain.an-:order for the construction of a tramway or road. -But the.right to use roal or tramway ' was.:iimited, to five years, and'the section contained no provision to ; enable the magistrate/ no- rnatfor how pat tho mteroate involved, to renew the right further term. He referred to the case of tho. suppliers,of practically tho whole, of the butter T andoheeso boxes for tho Tarinaki district.. Ifwould bo impossible' for them to cut tnpir timber out in anything like' five years. Tho.^ depatfttion suggested that;the magistrate should be given power to grant a ronewal.of the pormit the expiration of the period, and that tho applicant should be required to_ pay; adequato. compensation to the owner.or occupierj also they urged that when thp torm concludod the tramway or road uI, i^ 8 V'W***? of the constructor, ana that: the magistrate bo given power to authorise the ontry. of ■ n surveyor to tho land for the purpose of filing the definite line of; the road or tramway, and to dcßue the nieamng of , word " practical" in connoc-"oiVWli-the route : proposed. . ; ■ ' . ;^ ae ,.J rl |ne Minister (in feply) pointed,ou,t the diffoulty interfering with private propert)-,, especially, when that interference con. corned, not .a portion, but the whole- of, tho Dominion, but promised that the represents, tions of tlio deputation ,would be carefully bon. sidercd.K, ■ .. ■ . ~ ■ . ,-,•*■ ,-.•