MUNICIPAL ENDOWMENTS.

Western Star, Issue 261, 7 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

MUNICIPAL ENDOWMENTS.

The following is compiled from a “ return of lands reserved for the purpose of granting them to municipal corporations,” presented to both Houses of the Assembly in pursuance of the 351st section of the Municipal Corporations Act. The return itself opens with a schedule showing area and locality of proposed grants, followed by Mr M'Kerrow’s report given below, and concludes with a tabulated form showing the endowment reserves applied for under section 350 of the Act:— Memo for the Hon. the Minister for Lands. There are thirty-one applications for endowment, which, with the five (a) passed last session Lyttelton, Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Akaroa, and Timaru—make thirty-six (30) in all since the Act became law. Of the thirty-one now to be considered, Thames will have to be postponed, as the selection made is Native land still under negotiation. It is impossible in many cases to grant what was asked, as will be seen in remarks of accompanying list. Fresh selections have accordingly to be made on behalf of some of the Corporations. These have been made on the p inciple that large Government townships were entitled to greater consideration than small private townships. Care, however, had been taken that each selection would be of sufficient value to let as a farm or small run. James M'Kerkow. The following, made up from the return, show howthe various municipalities thatmade application since last session have respectively been treated by the Lands Department, but in relation to this it should be stated that the remarks attached to some of those that appear to have been more liberally used than others, show them in some cases to be unendowed, while in others it is mentioned that the land granted is of secondclass or inferior character.

MUNICIPALITY. AITLIKD fok. GAZETTED. Acres. Acres. Auckland 2000 1500 Parnell 2000 1000 Onehunga 1998 1000 Thames 2100 Napier 2000 2000 Hokitika 1800 1800 Sydenham 2000 855 Baidu tha 1955 1001 do. m 22 Cavcrsham ""2000 70S Cromwell 2000 1000 Green Island 2000 488 East Invercargill 2000 300 South Invercargil 2000 300 Invercargill 2000 1100 Lawrence 2000 1000 Maori Hill 2000 55G Mornington 2000 582 Naseby 2000 1925 North-east Valley 2000 556 Milton 2000 2000 Palmerston (South) 2000 1526 do 97+ — Eoslyn 2000 550 Oam am 1771 1771 Roxburgh 2000 1350 Queenstown 2000 511 South Dunedin 2000 744 Tapanui 2000 1473 West Harbor 1991 500