GRAZING AND OTHER RESERVES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 646, 16 February 1882, Page 2

GRAZING AND OTHER RESERVES.

The following .correspondence ««#»ea ,• As the matter' affects ve''"' ll^ the . ; vitality of this as well as $y° r inin *< ■'^**''' tres we publish it Mr de Lautour to ttd'Mayor of Ciaborne, k -"- • "_j.. Am strongly of opinion GovernmeC should be urged by public meeting to reserv-~_ Runs 219, 219 c, 206b, aud 20Go, to be dealt with by special legislation for benefit inhobiantß JSaseby. o. de Lautoub. The Hayor to the Minister of Lands. Naaeby, February 8. Was any laud been reserved around Naseby Am informed four thousand acres, including workings, been set aside. Is this so ? This area quite inadequate. N. P. Hjorring, Mayor. The MlnUttr for Lands to the Mayor. ■k- i * Wellington, February 9. JSo land for commonage has been reserved around Aaseby ; but, as you will see by reference to lithograph maps now open to public m Naseby, country around thi town lias been subdivided into email runs of 3200, 4040, 4600, and 90JO acres. In the proposals agreed upon by the Land B*&L and the Government,.the importance of preventing the possibility of alienation of auriferous land was fully considered. Hence the decision, which has had the approval of the G-overnmcut, to release this countrv. The gradual settlement of mining population has also been provided for along the bank-* of raiert river the Ida Valley, and other localities. You will observe-, ii> Mainot to ■■'ounty, areas in aggregate amounting to GfOnOncies are reserved from leasing, ai'd will be opened for hettlementiu Marcn, 1883. Four or five thousand acres on < aptun Hamuton's run will be off< red within next two months. Proposes of Government con! tempats declaratou of Hundreds, bv which in is i.eltevfd -razin.; ri-fit-a ro bona tide s ttlerswdlbe s-aeur.-d over arexs withhvll from runs. This will probably work betrer than commouag. s, which have hitherto'led to practical monoply of a few stock owners W. K-XLE.-,T-iN. The Mayor to the Ministry of Land*. ,„,, . (11.13 message eorsisted of the resolution passe I at the meutiag of the Borough Counc I a report of which will be louad elsewhere.) The Mayor to the County Chairman. _, . , , A'aseby, February 11. Received telegram from Mr do Lautour, suggesting that a public meeting be called to urge on Government that four runs around Waseby, comprising 20,000 acres should be reserved, to be dealt with by special legislation for benefit of inhabitants. Would you be in favor of calling special meeting of Council to act in conjunction with Boroigh in matter.? N. P. H joueing, Mayor. The County Chairman to the Mayor. at Bathans, February 13, Sib, —I have thebonor to inform you that, after consideration and though fully alive to the fact that to all representations as to the evil results likely to follow their hasty action with r.gard to the runs, the Government have far turned a deaf ear. I have decided to call a special meeting of Council to cousider the absence of provision in the Government proposals for that large classnow resident upon the country dealt with, and en ;aged in mining and other pursuits,, who cannct avail themselves of the advantages o: the agricultural lease, deferred pavment, or purchase systems, of the present Land Act. Let me know the date of your 1 JSaseby meeting, and I will, if possible: attend. I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedient servant, John Chairman, Maniototo Council. The Minister of Lands to tin Mayor, Wellington, February 13. Telegram of 11th received. The lam's withheld from leasing are partly the lands which were previously petitioned for by the people of Naseby to be withheld for commonage, and they are in the main, lam imformed, much the same distance from Naseby as the land previously applied for. The runsclose toNaseby have been so cut up into small areas so as to afford opportunities for obtaining grazing ii.ht3 by those interested. Ihe Governor having given his approval to the recommendations of the Land Board I donot see how the Government can now interfere' W. RoLLEBTON.