CANTERBURY.
At the Hospital Board meeting on Wednesday there was some interesting correspondence with regard to State fire insurance. The secretary of the board had attempted to place a small v-Hne with the State, but the other companies had at once objected that they could not act with the State, whereupon the secretary at once called in the whole of the policies and placed the whole line of insurance, amounting to £9000, with the State department. This policy of taking the bull by the horns is understood to have cast dismay into the camp of the proprietary companies.
Mr James Morton, chairman of the Natal Land Board, is at present touring the colony, and has arrived here. He has visited Edendale, Waikakahi, and other estates resumed under the Land for Settlements Act. He states that it is the intention of the Natal Government to follow as closely as possible the New Zealand legislation dealing with closer settlement of land. Mr Morton vieited Lincoln College, and intends going to Cheviot to-morrow.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2663, 29 March 1905, Page 30
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