UNITED PUMPING ASSOCIATION GRANT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 25 May 1875, Page 2

UNITED PUMPING ASSOCIATION GRANT.

The following is the "'petition to the Provincial Council re the grant to the Pumping -Association, which received numerousfsignatures to-day:—

To the Honorable Members of the Pro-

vincjali Council of the Province of '^Auckland, in Council assembled. Thepetition of the undersigned, humbly sheweth:

1. ![that your petitioners are severally as owners or otherwise directly or indirectly interested in the mining property within the Thames Goldfield.

2. That a large area of ground, part of the said Goldficld, and within the Borough of Thames, was worked down to certain levels yielding large returns of gold. 3. That there was and is every reason to expect that below the levels aforesaid an equally valuable deposit would be found, but deeper sinking was prevented by the influx of water. 4. To clear the several mines from water an association was formed of the owners of several adjoining mines,;and called the "United Pumping Association."

5. This association, at its own cost, with the exception of,some not very considerable contributions from other mine owners, constructed and maintained pumping plant down to arid at a depth of some 400 feet below Ihe-sea level. >-•

6. Jn this work the Association expended upwards of £60,CD0 down to the time of the agreement hereinafter mentioned. '''■" '

7. The Government of this Colony, with the cpneurrrence of his Honor the then Superintendent of this province, recognising the operations of the said Association as of public utility in developing the mining wealth of the locality to the general welfare, agreed, on the solicitation of the said Association, to advance to then?, by instalments, a. sum of £50,CC3 on a' security agreed upon and subsequently given. ' " ■ ■ 8. That several of such instalments have already been received by the said Association. under , the. said agreement, but the times for making several other of such: instalments, according to'theT terms of the said loan,, have passed without such instalments having been paid to the said Association.

9. That sucH unpaid imtalment3 have 'been handed over by the: said General Government in a manner not previously adopted, and it has: thereby become' a .technical necessity, before any farther •instalments of tho said.loan can be re* ceived by the said Association, that a vote of your Honourable Council should be passed in the matter. 10. That by reason of the said agreement the said Association has, as your Memorialists are, informed and believe; expended monies and incurredjiabilities ;in the further' execution of the said work ibeyohd-their means apart from th? said loanj and unless the balance of the said loan be received by the said Association, its operations will be suspended or abandoned to' the at least temporary ruin of the mitring intrest of the said locality, and to the great depression of the general mining interest of the said field, and of the prosperity of the Province. " ; Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable Council will, taking into consideration the allegations of your petitioners, pass such, measures in relation to the premisesas may appear fit for the relief of the said Association, jand* your petitioners therein. ; . And your petitioners will ever pray,«fcc;