CROWN RESERVES.
FOR EDUCATION" AND' CHARITABLE AID. STATI2MENT BY THE .PREMIER:, =.■ In t tlie.. course of his address at Geraldine on the Premier stated that inquiry ;h?id been made" regarding flie fea-sibility-faking reserves of Crown .Lands for ediicat ioii. and -cli ant able r aid purposes, and ; he-read lists 'of : areas wiideh cotild to furnished by the land districts mentioned for each purpose..' The areas are as'follows, in acres:— - - v District. " " Education. Charitable
Aid. . ATOkland.. ...... 230,000 107 400 Tffawte's'Bay ... 63,1(X) -29,000 - , ; Wellington , .... 204,800. . 91,300' JNSsoni; > : 40,500 . 20.200 1 Marlborough ..1 14,000 8,500 West-land . 19,900 : 11,800 Canterbury 181,300 94,600 ' Otago J 149,106 81,700 Southland '..1... 71,400 30,000 These total approximately 1,000,000 and 500,000 acres respectively. The Premier remarked* that the statutes at present only gave power to reserve a quarter of a million acres for' charitable and legislation must be sought next session to authorise the reservation of the additional quarter of a million. The statutes referred to are the Etuiwtion Reserves Act- of 1877 and the Hospi--100/ Charitable Institutions Act of 1885. The former provides for .the allocation of the then existing education reserves between primary and secondary schools.
the "latter? receiving one-fdn'ttli?'l'bat allocation _\nis. made, anad ntv.fmther ro;ervutions, it is understood, have since been mad& in this Island, excepting small areas as school sit a?. Special provision was made in the Act tot -netting aside for t bests purposes" a certain proportion of the Crown lands then _ op* n for . settlement in the North *'?fcland. v As for the h capitals and charitable aid reserves, the Act authorises the Governor in Council; "ae soon as may be," to'" set apart 250,000 acres of Cr«iwn lands in such areas in different parts of the'colony as he shall t.bink fit, f<-r the purposes ol this Act." That- "as soon as may he" has not yet arrived, though .twenty years have elapsed wince the Act; was passed. /
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12927, 19 March 1906, Page 6
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