CROWN LANDS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9430, 29 July 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

CROWN LANDS.

DUKfSDIK. Julv 2H. The ballot for the Patearoa motions wna teMlay conducted by Xlr Barron, with Mown Kirk and Price an scj-urineera, .Fur section. 53 ibere were 37 applicant!, and Margaret .lane Mnlhollaiid was kuccwftil. HuutJoa SB, fourteen applicdi)!*; Douglas Charles Stewart. Section 3'J. thirty-seven applicants, James Patrick Herliby, Sections iis w.-lli, eigbt>Mivo applicants j Jane J'otlinger. Suctions 4'J and 11, nine'.y-six applicants, Surah Ana aiulhollfiwi. .Section 6U. thirty applicantß ; James Thomas Schrick. JfectioD 01, thirty - three applicants, Charles Andrew Dougherty, Beuliou 52, twenty applicants; ilargnret btewart L'arr. THE FOR SETTLEMENT OF I'UKKTOI AXI) LKVNBL'RX RUNS. (Daily Times.) Shortly after tue close of the ballot for the Patearoa sections, competed for on Tuesday, a very lui gely-aUended meeting of those interested in the opening uf the lands fur the people was held in the Land Boardroom. Priiiees street. The meeting was convened by Mr John Blakeley (Gimmerbiirn} for the | purpose of arranging committees, pr«i»»'"«g ; petition, &«., to urge up«o tlm C.overmm i.t the necessity for throwing open for selection Puketoi Run «nd Limit urn Run j-The Convener drew attention to the very ; large number of applicants for rtius ami sections in this locality at each ballot, ami stated that theie were hundreds of young men anxious to get on the land who would ha\e to leave the colony and make homes elsewhere unless the largo holdings were sonn settled. These holdings were udmirably suited for small grazing inns. A petition should be pimmted to the Government uiging it to obtain for settlement the • lartfi- ureas referred to. Mr.L 11. Kirk, solicitor, being present, whs asked his opinion on the legal position. He stated th.u Mr Wutson 3hennau held Puketoi—un area of about ucres—under a renewed louse granted to him for 21 years fiom 1898. Mr Turnbnll held Linirbiun innler a leuse whicn expired in both estates being classed as first class. lie did not think that us the law Stood the Government could resume these lands until the expiry of the respective terms, and, spe,iking generally, he doubled 'whether, it couUl uke thu binds under the for Settlement Act. If a petition Mere presented to the Minister the latter would was a genuine desire > by bona fide applicants to take up and fcettle-upon (lie lands, and the Government would probably not renew Mr Tumbull's lease of Linnbnrn when that espliud six years hence.. That amount of good would : be done, but he did not think the Government hud |ower to do anything else. It could l*e approached \vith a view t«» i;etting ; it to offer terms,-to tne present levees for the purchase uftheir Usages and improvements, said of course if terms could be arranged, aud the Government purchased, the lund would ihcu be thrown open. In sueb event, however, a higher rental would v probably be asked from selectors than would be asked if the Government cuuld ofler thevlands without having fkattubuy. ; Mr Mathewson thought it .might be as well to devote attention solely to LinnbiM-n with a view to securing that a' reneweu leas« would not be granted ; but after several gentlemen hud spoken Mr Blakeley moved—"That Mr J. R. Kirk b« instructed to prepare a petition to the Government praying that Puketoi aud Linnburn be acquire! and'offered-for. settlement na soon ass " possible," lie considered that us the Government had tied the lands up it s mull help to have them re eased. The motion was seconded by Mr W. Hall, jun»carried unanimously*Mesnrs M. Co«uii, J. I'. HerJihy, aud Robert M'Skimming were appuintcd a cominittee to obtain signatures at. Patearoa, Mr 11. Johnstone at Blnckstone Hill, Mr T. Gilchrist fit Rough Ilidge and I'la Y.dtey, .Mr G. V, ittiug at Dnne.lin and Livingstone, Mr J. Blakeley at Giiumerburn and Wedderburn, and Mr T U. Hore at Xaseby. A vole of thanks t» the Commissioner "f Crown I,inula fin- the use of the boardroom, proposed by Mr P M'Aumoey aud seconded; by Mrßlakek'y,was carried by acclamation.