GOLD PROSPECTING
Ministerial Pronouncement
TO THE- N.Z. .FARMERS’ UNION
LAND-OWNERS COMPENSATION
(Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This day.
The position of .gold prospectors on farm lands was made plain by the Minister of Agriculture and Mines, Hon. C. E. McMillan, in a letter read to-day at a meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union. Any grant made by a warden, the Minister said, was subject to the. statutory land condition requiring the holder of the grant._to compensate owners of freehold land for any damages that might be caused in consequence of shaft-sink-ing or boring.
Dredging claims were subject to the consent of the Minister of Mines, and it had been the practice to investigate carefully the effect of dredging and in some cases special conditions had been imposed with the object,of protecting the surface of land applied for, or restoring same by depositing spoil on top of the tailings. It was his intention to visit; the goldfields to see for himself the' results of dredging.
Later, the advisability of amending the law or otherwise Would be carefully considered by the Government.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 122, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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