LAND "TAKEN"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 12

LAND "TAKEN"

FOR DEFENCE AREA

OWNERS RESENT METHODS

Residents of Castor Bay, Hauraki Gulf, whose property has been resumed by the Government following its proclamation of a defence area in that district resent the methods adopted by the Government, in that no warning u-as given beforehand and no information is available even now, states the Auckland "Star." . ■ , '■ - -.- The chairman of the committee formed by the residents of Castor Bay thus affected, said that the Government had not deigned to give the residents any advance intimation at all. They had found out by seeing the news in the newspapers. It had been a bolt out of the blue. Even after it had been mude thus public, no word had been received from the Government, and house and property holders who had put years of work into their holdings simply did not know where they stood or what to do. , HOBSONVILLE; AREA. The owners, of the land taken at Hobsonville are in a similar state of doubt, according to information given by the clerk of the Waitemata County Council, who said,the first he knew of the resumption of land at Hobsonville was advice from the "Star" and request for information. "We .have not yet received any advice concerning it," he said. "In common fairness, whatever the legal requirements may or may not.be, people concerned, as well as the local bodies, should be notified." The county would lose approximately £300 a year in rates from the Castor Bay land; but until exact notice of the land taken at Hobsonville was received, it scarcely possible to assess the eounty.'s loss iv rates.