PETITIONS.

10

G.

PETIT ION OF WILLIAM HENRY ROBERTS, OE ARDMORE STATION, To His Excellency Sir George The Znt Petite of William Henry Sherwood Boberts, of Ardmore Station, » the Province of The humble I Bheep _ farmer anA Grazier, SHm W your petitioner is lessee and occupier of a sheep and cattle station, called the Ardmore Station, situated in the Province of Otago station under the terms of a depasturing license That your petitioner formerly occupied tte ma Regulations, issued under the terms of the provisions of ge Otag^Was to _ . d^t =011, in pursuance of the powers and provisions of condition that your petitioner executed a f deed by P && & to event of His Honor the Superintendent, of£tago atanyi ti b tione r should consent to such sale, throw open for sale six thousand acres of'the lands leased yo p of mght be and quit and deliver up possession of the lands to tne ex required. . . . . leage glabiec t to the condition of his entering into the That your petitioner declined to take a lease nee on the pa rt of the Government required died of covenant, except on be free from the liability of that, if such deed of covenant was enWmt° ; your P eti 0 && rf having any part of his said station declared mto hundreds mentioll ed in the said deed of during the term of the lease, except to the ~ nt °Vl^ give such express and distinct assurance to covenant; and thereupon the , th ° « of Ms station, and executed the required deed of COTC Thtt your petitioner is informed, and believes the last *to» d^^JjoPj^gJ Sfbe a^ EXCe S y vour petitioner's station thereon, five thousand pouniTr sffiya -p-— « the said stto upwards ° fS Vhtt reapportion of the sum laid out in the improvements on the said station has been expended since the acceptance of the said lease. increased rent imposed under the That your petitioner would not have consented to j improvem ent, except on the provisions of " The Otago Waste Act 1866 no*^ e ld to gee J ed the certain tenure of faith of the assurance of the Provincial Government tnat reserved by the deed ol covenant Ms station for the full term granted by the the Hundred on the lands leased That, should your Excellency sane ion recommenaa && & hw&mi to your petitioner, your petitioner will be to c t pc r" petitioner on the station ' .anSv?^ That the proposed hundred comprises that tlie rec ommendation for the said has fenced off into paddocks; an<! rf f Specks and the cost thereof, and wdl proposed Hundred, your petitioner of ne P pad docks. . , L compelled to incur considerable expense in Ahe ioimi £ ft Hundred on your petitioner s That of the eleven thousand acres F°P«***° « a „ ri cultural purposes, station, there are not more than four and the inhabitants thereof, That your petitioner is well acquainted with the ™ CT f cultura l pur p o ses is not required serve political purposes by parties m no way and others whoso position will not who have no desire to purchase land for agricultural P-po-s alone, V Hd d permit the purchasing for such purpose, signed the petitmn & oi on it being represented to them they wouki, .d r £ e of a small'portion of the Hundred depasturage on your petitioner ■ °he Provincial Government, and of the recomP has suffered much injury mendation for the declaration of in value; and if the recommendation for s: sto win be : ome comparatively valueless Session of the Otago Provincial Council, your petitioner