MILLERS FLAT MINERS' ASSOCIATION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4351, 13 June 1896, Page 4

MILLERS FLAT MINERS' ASSOCIATION.

[Correspondent.]

A meeting of the Millers Flat Miners' Association was held at Eady's Hotel on Saturday last, when Mr C. C. Rawlins presided. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

The meeting endorsed a resolution passed by the Lowburn branch that a clause be inserted in the Mining Act re boundaries of river and bank dredging claims to the following effect: "That the first applicants have the right to work up to the peg without being responsible for any damage caused by the upper strata falling in."

A long discussion took place regarding the punt site.^ This is the first time this question has been discussed by the Association,probably owing to the different views held by the public and individual members of the committee regarding the subject, and it was looked upon as forbidden ground. However, as it is now becoming all but useless for a punt site and, to all appearance, it will be a long time yet before it is replaced by a bridge, a resolution was moved by Mr M'lntyre, seconded by Mr Jno. Borland, and carried : " That the pridr right for the punt site should be given to the first peggers out."

The Chairman remarked he was sorry the above resolution was carried, as it left matters entirely as they were. The objects of the Association were solely on behalf of the mining industry, and in his opinion the meeting should have passed a resolution to get the different branches of the Union to bring pressure on the Government to get legislation to bear on the question and have it either declared a reserve or granted for dredging purposes.' He thought that at present the site was illegally occupied by the County Council either for the punt or bridge site, and he did not think that such a valuable piece of ground should be locked up from public enterprise. Mr Richardson said he considered the site is at present occupied on the behalf of miners and the nlining industry, and that it is used as a public thoroughfare and also in bringing the miners' children to and fro to school.and that the punt had been running now in the same place for upwards of twenty-two years, which, in itself, ought to constitute a right for the County Council still to retain it. The Chairman said that it was quite natural that people having used a thoroughfare for such a length of time became used to looking .upon it as a vested right, but that did not make it legally so, and that a miners' right was by far superior to any right by which the ground was at present retained. He would like to see some direct conclusions arrived at. As the thing stood at present there was a possibility of it drifting into a political step-ping-atone to be used by parties who had not the least interest in either punt, bridge, or claim. The usual compliment to the chair terminated the meeting.

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