THE LEASE IN PERPETUITY ON GOLDFIELDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10179, 13 October 1894, Page 7

THE LEASE IN PERPETUITY ON GOLDFIELDS.

The following correspondence has been placed at our disposal.:— .'•",-,., „ ■'■•. _' , .;'..'.''' Naeeby, September 3. To; Hon, J- M'Kenzie, Minister for Lands,-Wel-lington.' ■ ■' *-■ - ,-' "'*;■; ' • Sir,—l am. instructed by the Miners Association to ask you for, information r«,the reply sent to the association from the Department at, lianas and Survey, Wellington, in answer to our association's letterfrom Mr Maitland, Crown Lands Commissioner. Dunedin, in connection, with .land granted to James Speddin, farmer, Gimmerburn, on, the (lease' in perpetuity system.-Our Maocia-tionwishesyouto-letus know whether the.reply applies to the grant:giy,en to Mr. Speddin only, or if. to the: lease in perpetuity m general, or it miners have free entry oh to auy Idndthat w. atinferous ott the perpetuity' system.', i. ■request you' to send a prompt'reply, as the reply sent to the'rassociation is -not,satisfactory—not being sufficiently explicit for miners to go on to.a lease in perpetuity to prospect,-! am, &c, Angus M'Neill, Hon. Sec/Mount Ida Miners' Association, Naseby, ' .Department' of Lands and Survey, X '■*' .■■'"■■'■ ,' Wellington, 24th September .I^4. : Sir.-I iim directed by the Minister for Lands to actnowle'dge the receipt of your letter of .the 3rd inst., and in reply.thereto to state that vithm goldfields, or where it « .t nown..^ at t^d e 1 r l le? exist, the lease in ■. perpetartyentatlei the .holder onlytothe.useof the surface, and does not give him the right to any minerals or valuable stone -aerthe'fiuface.-T-ou^wOlsee,«« teggjtiom. mentioned in section 121 of "The Land-Act 1892," and also in*the V™^**™'^^?'™. lands for occupation under- part 3 ? l^ atj. a ** You will see also that section 213 of. The Mines Act 1591," as amended by (H) of section 3oi Jne Mining Act Amendment Act. 189?" P™*^/" the reservation ofminerals, and gives the right to. mine on all la^ds alienated from the Crown.— Phave Ac: '• ' A. BabbON, Under-sp.cretary ■ "'Angi'sTM'Neill, Esq... Hon. secretary Mount Ida Miners' Association.' ' . '