RIPARIAN RIGHTS.
TO THE EDITOB. Sir,— Observing your note on Saturday re Or Lee Smith in the City Council on riparian rights, might I ask you to insert the facts of the •water rights as they wore when the late Mr George Duncan erected the, present flour mpL When the mill was being erected be ofJjpn
remarked that he might be foolish in spending so much money on the mill seeing that he was only on sufferance, and had no right to take the water unless by consent of the City, as the Chief Surveyor had reserved it for the City, and he was paying a nominal rent for it. I would like to know if the ca-e is different now, or if Royse, Stead, and Co. pay anything for the right, and how much of the lease is to run. Seeing the amount of interest this water question is causing, a thorough inquiry ought to be instituted. Let the public see how they stand before attempting to take it, as in that case damages might still be got, even though the right was shadowy,—l am, etc., Oi-d Miller. Dunedin, April 4.
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Evening Star, Issue 7180, 6 April 1887, Page 3
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