AN OKOROIRE PETITION.
REDUCED RENTAL SOUGHT.
[BE TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. A petition was presented to the House to-day an behalf of Frederick William Anderson, Norman Percival Anderson, George Edward Anderson, and Williaim Walter Sutclilfe, of Okoroire, asking lor relief in respect of the rental of certajn lands in the Kahoroa Block in the Mamaku bush which are subject, to bush sicknesH. The petitioners state that on the original subdivision of the BelwyD settlement the allottees of certain dairying sections near Okoroire were compelled to accept, in addition, portions of the land in the Kahoroa Block, about 11 miies distant. They now And these lands a burden and unprofitable. . The distance irom the main holding, the broken nature of the land, the continuing prevalence of bush sickness, and the lack of value for farming purposes, combined with the impossibility of using such lands for grazing purposes, rendered the compulsory retention of such lands at the rental of 2s 6d per acre unnecessarily burdensome to their general dairying operations, i'hey now ask for a reduction in rental.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18189, 7 September 1922, Page 8
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177AN OKOROIRE PETITION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18189, 7 September 1922, Page 8
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