POLLHILL GULLY INQUIRY.
REPORT OF THIfcOMMISSIONKKS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. The Pollhill Gully Commissioners' Report was submitted to the Government to-day. The Commissioners think it would have been preferable for the Government itself to have taken the land under the Public Works Act, and they also think there was no apparent reason why the subsidy paid tor the land should not have been placed on the supplementary estimates. No agential any time ought to be employed on behalf of the Government to effect a purchase. The average price of the land bought by Kirk and Atkinson was £3t5 9id per acre, and as it was sold by them to the Government at i'isl per acre, there could be no doubt of the extremely disadvantageous character of the agreement entered into with that firm by the Defence Department. There could be no doubt that Kirk and Atkinson had only purchased and transferred to the Government the cheapest and roughest portion of the land. The Commissioners said it was not desirable to incur any further outlay on the purchase of the Polhill Gully Rille Range.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8882, 19 May 1892, Page 5
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