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Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 30, 23 February 1853, Page 2

A few weeks since we published an official announcement of the resumption of land sales in this settlement, nnd somewhat pre-

maturely, as it now appears, congratulated the settlement on the advantages the measure would operate as legards the transfer of the little available land possessed hy the Crown here. We now learn that the benefits which might have been anticipated from this return to something like a state of acthily aic so controlled by the difficulties and delays that me made to intervene as most mateiially to diminish its usefulness. To applications for land it is replied that a communication must be had with Auckland and an advertisement in the Government Gaz tte take place before any steps can be taken heie ; thus it is to be presurmd that months may elapse before any purchase could be concluded. It is most desirable that some of these official obstiuctions should be dispensed with, and if a public officer is appointed and paid for a duty that. licslioii'd be enabled to act more on his own responsibility, and not have Iho useful efficiency v.hich his p r esence is intended to provide neutialized hy a system of perpetual icference and ie-refeience to distant authorities.