MAURICEVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 17 February 1879, Page 2

MAURICEVILLE.

[From our own Correspondent.]

About the end of December last, the Mauriceville settlers made an application to tho Waste Lands Board for an additional section of land for each, on terms similar to those on which their present holdings were obtained, as these are small for the energies' and support of a family, most of them being only forty acres. It seems also that in 1874 a circular was sent out by the Immigration Office, in which each family was promised ail additional section, as aoon as they had complied with the. conditions of tho one they occupied. This application was considered by the Waste Lands Board, and afterwards referred to tho General Crown Lands' office, with a recommendation that it be granted, This request was refused on rlie ground that there is now no authority, under which the Special Settlers can bp allowed to take up more land, except ii. pursuance of tho Land Act, and the Crown Laud Sales ict, 1817, and that section 60 of tho above mentioned ilet,' limits tho selector to but one exercise of this privilege.

A good deal of indignation lias been expressed up here on account of an article in your columns, by one of our settlers, on tlie urgent necessity for a constable in this place. There was a fire some time ago, which burnt some fences, crops, and awhare, and it is probable it was on this account that the statement.was'-made; but it is only fair to say that it.was>neither done maliciously nor designedly,- but was a mere accident, and what a policeman could have done in extinguishing a bush fire one can easily guess, Tho tri-weekly mail puts us in closer connection with the rest of the community. The coach generally passes through the Settlement, but this will be impossible in winter, as the road will be impassable unless it is metalled. This road, especially in Mauriceville South, consists mostly of deep cuttings, the road having been laid off too straight for a rough country, and the consequence is that during the wet season it is a kind of hybrid, betv/ben a road and a canal, and very difficult to pass on a strong liorso. The Mauriccville School Committee afe— Jorgen Neilsou; Giuider Gundci-sen; Frederick Jagerhorn; Jens P. Pedersen; Nicolai Jenson; Ole Boson; and John Sweusen.