GRAZING AND OTHER RESERVES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 646, 18 February 1882, Page 2

GRAZING AND OTHER RESERVES.

The following correspondence nn „„,j A* tli-j matter aflcifcs very the' vitality of this as well ®en tries we publish it in full 7

Mr de Lwulour to the ituf!' L ■ Feb - 7. Arn strongly of opinion & vormnen should be urged by public meeting A Runs 219. 2 J tic, 206b, and 2000, to be 1 with by special legislation for benefit inhi 1 " ants Naat-by, ' 0. de Lautoub. ti 2 he Aluyvr to the Minister of Jjancls. J Tr Naseby, February 8. A Has any lanl been reserved around Nasekj" Am informed four thousand acres, including ■ workings, been set aside. Js this so ? This- v area quite inadequate. N. P. Hjokrinq, Mayor, flhe Mlninttr Jar Tjan/ia to the yiayor, v . Wellington, February 9. land for commonage has been reserved around Naseby ; but, as you will see by reference to lithograph maps now open to public m Waseby, country around the town „., s , ubdividefl into smnll runs of 3200, 4040, 4600, and 9000 acres. In the proposals fagrecd upon by the Land Board and the Government, tbe importance of 'preventing the possibility of alienation of nfririfsro 13 land was fully considered. Hence 1 lie decision, which has had the approval of th Government, to release this countr . Toe gradual settlement of mining population )<;>b also been provided for along the hank-* of I/aien river, the Ida Valley, and other localities. You will observe, in Maniot-to a' 1 areaa aggregate amounting to •ii u acres are reserved from leasing, at id will be opened for bettlementinMaron, 1883. Four or five thousand acres on (.'apt.iin Hamilton s run will be offered within next two months. Proposals of Government contemp ate declaration of Hun Jivd-f, by which it 19 believed : rights to bona !i<ie settlers will be secured oi'erareis \\ithh-l.i from runs. This will probably work oct 'er than commonages, which have hitherto led to practical monoply of a few stock owners,

W. ItOLLEsTON, The Mayor to the Minister of Lands,

. Nas«:by, February 11, \ 1 his message consisted of the resolution passed at the meeting of the B jrough C ouncil, a report of which will be found elsewhere,)

The Mayor to the County Chairman. t, . , , .Naseby, February 11. Received telegram from Mr de Lautour, suggesting that a public meeting be called to urge on Government that four runs around -.Naseby, comprising 20,0U0 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 Boro'iuh. m matter.? N. P. Hjobbing, Mayor.

The County Chairman to the Mayor, St Bathans, February 13. Sm, I have thehonor 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 tlieir hasty action with regard to the runs, the Government have soj fur turned a deaf ear, I have decided to call a special meeting of Council to consider the absence of provision in the Government proposals for that large class now resident upon the country dealt with, and engaged illumining and other pursuits, who cannot avail themselves of the ad vantages ot the agricultural lease, deferred pavnient, or purchase systems, of the present Land Act. Let me know the date of your' .Naseby meeting, and I will, if possibleattend.

~ I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedient servant, John Ewing, Chairman, Maniototo Council. The Minister of Lands to the Mayor. Wellington, February 13. Telegram of 11th received. The lane's withheld from leasing are partly the lands which were previously petitioned for by the people j i withheld for commonage, and taey are in the* main, I am -unformed, much the game distance from Naseby as tha laud previously applied f °r. Ihe runs close to.Naseby have been so cut up into small areas so as to afford opportunities for obtaininggrazing rights by those interested. The Governor having given his approval to the recommendations of the Land Board I do not see how the Government can now inter*eve* W. Rollbston.