FIFTY YEARS AGO
LAND DIFFICULTIES; Difficulties over land tenure were causing trouble in New Zealand half a century ago, the laws regarding mining and the granting of homesteads sometimes coming into conflict. The following is from the New Zealand .Hebaid of March 11, 1888: "The grievances of the. homeslead settlers at Tapu Creek, near the Thames, are soon to be the subject of an action in the Compensation Court. It appears that these settlers took up land in 1879 which had been duly proclaimed by the Governor as open for selection under the homestead clauses of the Land Act, 1877. The settlers im- • proved the land, making comfortable' comes in what had hitherto been a wilderness. It turned out, however, that the Governor had no power to proclaim the land at all, as at was goldiields land, and subject to. the laws relating to mining. Within r the last year the settlers have been much harassed by miners entering upon their lands by virtue of mining licences—cutting dlown trees, destroying crops and fences—and one of the settlers was fined heavily for resisting a who was trespassing upon his land and earthing off timber."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22984, 11 March 1938, Page 6
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