Fbom the. explanation . given at the last meeting of the Wellingtou Land Board by the Commissioner of Lands, it appears that the original misapprehension as to the meaning of the Land Act, as bearing on the rival applications of Messrs Bailly and Miller, did not rest with him, but with the Head Office, to which the question was referred. The Commissioner had no doubt at all on the point at issue, but it was not his function to determine the meaning of Acts of Parliament, and so the question was referred to headquarters, with the result that the first decision given was subsequently found to have been given in error, and was accordingly, and very properly, revoked. But the whole affair is a veritable tempest in a teapot.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 29
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