THE VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL AND KEMP AND PARTY’S APPLICATION FOR A MINING CLAIM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1440, 16 August 1889, Page 3

THE VINCENT COUNTY COUNCIL AND KEMP AND PARTY’S APPLICATION FOR A MINING CLAIM.

The following is'a copy of a petition presented to the Waste Lands Board in reference to the above, to which is attached 20 signatures, of whom 24 Are miners living in the locality : Bald Hill Flat, _ .. August 10, 1889. To the Chairman and Members Was to Lands Board, Dunedin. Gbntlbmbn,— We. the undersigned miners and roslbenta of Bald Hill t lut aud neighborhood, beg to call your attention to the Vincent County Council’s action against Kemp and Party’s application for four acres on the gravel hill, Twelve Mile Range, for mining purposes. We are of opinion the Council are taklng(under plausible objections) a gross advantage of their position and power to obstruct an important mining .enterprise. Even admitting! the Council must nave gravel from this particular hill, we are of an opinion that from one to two acres in any corner, excepting ths north-east one, would be sufficient for all possible wants of the Council for gravelling purposes. Fronds W. Gray, mimr SamuelSimmonds, miner James Swain „ John Bailey „ Peter Grant, shepherd Robert Gray n Thomas Hahill, miner James McKenzie „ James Drew „ Win. Chas. Hodges „ John Quayle A. R. McLeod „ Robert T. Symes, mine Alfred Brown „ . manager James iLythgoe ~ H. Crossan, miner Andrew Mitchell Matthew Brown „ Charles Bey ford „ James Gavin „ Joseph Leach , W. Blackwell „ William Hunt, resident John Campbell, miner Henry Prosser, miner John Mitchel, miner.