A PECELIAR CASE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 15, Issue 1181, 3 May 1892, Page 2

A PECELIAR CASE.

The Wellington Land Board held an irquiry on Friday into the circumstances under which certain sections in the Dry river and Makara blocks, Wairarapa, were taken up by &J?ssrs Chaples, Pharazyn, Elgar, and others.. The iaquiry had beeu ordered in consequence ot a statement contained in the report of the rauger leading the Board to suppose that the selections had' not been bona fide. In the course of the examination of the selectors interested, it was stated that the land was, taken lip for Mr Pharazyn's children, Mr Pharjzyn finding the money.. Stock was pat on the land within a year, and whatever profit had been made out of the section had been spent oh improvements* The sections were still being worked, fbe j ranger in his evidence said the improvements were largely in excess ot what th« Act reauirejd,, b»,t as the sections were not worked fcßparateJy, he thought the Land Board should know they were worked from one homestead. The Board passed a lengthy resolution, the effect of Y?h\ob, is to exculpate Mr Pharazyn from th.e charge of dnmmyism,. but drawing th& attention of the Minister of Luanda to she fact that it appears that without contravening, the land regulations five members of one family, can take upj'B266 acres of pastoral land iu one block,. ■' '