Crown Lands.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 364, 17 January 1890, Page 2

Crown Lands.

At the meeting of the Wairarapa North County Council on Wednesday, Cr Von Reden complained of the way in which the settlement was delayed in the County generally, and particularly in the Alfred ton district, through the neglect of the Survey Department to open up the Crown Lands. He reckoned that in the district alluded to fully 100,000 acres remained to lie opened up. The consequence was very unfair and most mjurioui to settlers, who were subjected to great drawbacks and inconvenience through the sparsity of population. He referred to such settlers as Messrs Saunders and Napier, who with their families had been lending an isolated existence, bereft of the comforts of social intercourse and the ordinary conveniences of civilisation, because nothing was done to settlo the country in their neighborhood- Ho moved, " That tiie Minister of Lands be written toand informed of the way in which the settlers in the North Wairarapa are siifforing through the neglect of the

Depa’tmcnt to open up the Cruw.i Lands to settlement." The Chairman seconded the motion, remarking that some five or six years ago the requirement* of the district bad been poiuted out to the Hon. Mr Rolleston. who had promised tnat tne land would be surveyed for settlement. This promise, however, had evidently been forgotten. Sottlers like Messrs Saunders, Napier, and others who had brought up largo families, residiug among the backwoods for twenty and twenty-five years, had their enterprise and energy badly repaid by being per sisteully compelled to lead an isolat-d existence, without neighbors to help them or the ordinary comforts <-t society. He sympathised with sett Urwho hail done so much in the early davs, and for want of settlement and owing to the studied neglect of the Government dci>artnieiits, were still living in the wilds without schools or population and its conyenieuces near them. He therefore heartily seconded the resolution.

The motion was carried unani mously.