DISCUSSION BY WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11122, 14 January 1899, Page 3

DISCUSSION BY WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

" Auckland, Friday. At the meeting of the Waitemata County Council to-day correspondence from the Department of Labor at Wellington was submitted in reference to the Kauri Gum Industry Act, 1898. The department forwarded copies of regulations and license and application forms. The department also asked for the names and addresses of the rangers appointed by the Council under the Act, and further forwarded the names of Austrians recently landed, not yet three months in the colony, and who arrived in the colony on. 21st November and December sth. A copy of the Order in Council empowering local bodies to issue kauri gum licenses was aIBO forwarded, and also a list of Crowif lands in the county set apart as gum reserves. A general discussion followed, it being pointed out that the land in the county referred to as gum reserves had been exhausted, and that nearly all the gum now got in the county was obtained from private landß, which the Act did not interfere with. Mr Newman stated there were not more, than half a dozen Austrians in the ' gum digging district of the county, and they had been residents there for some years. Ifc was agreed to take no action to bring the Kauri Gum Industry Act into operation in the Waitemata county.