GOLDFIELD COMMONS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 176, 22 June 1871, Page 6

GOLDFIELD COMMONS.

(To tiur Editor.) Sir, —The settlers here were rather amused the other day by reading a proclamation signed Maokay, Inspector Goldtield Districts, calling upon all parties wishing to depasture stock on the Mount Bonger Goldfield Commonage to make application and pay assessment for the same to the Warden on or before the 25th inst., otherwise legal proceedings would be taken, &c. T would recommend your worthy inspector that he would first come and examine the commonage in question, and decide whether it exists or not, and if so, to try and find some access to it. I believe some years ago a few thousand acres of Alpine country, which no person thought worth his while tc take up for a run, was declared a common, beyond Mount Benger ; but being closed in by runs No. 369 and No. 215* it there lie? in its primeval solitude ; and to make the assurance doubly sure, the lessees of the above runs have fenced it in. And I am iuformed that one of them had the temerity to drive a few stray cattle off it to the Tap mvi pound. I would respectfully suggest to Mr. Inspector Mackay that previous to scattering broadcast his proclamations he should first make himself acquainted whether a commonage exists only in name or reality. — I am, &c, Clodhopper. Moa Flat, June 16, 1871.