DUMMYISM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 939, 10 May 1883, Page 2

DUMMYISM.

; At yesterday’s meeting ’of the" Otago Land Board, several applications were received and adjourned for a week from pec* aona who purchased at the recent; deferred payment pastoral sale.' The brothers Philip and William Young, James Pearsall and-I William Esse, all.of 5 'Tasmania, wrote asking for a re-considera-tion of the decision by theJßoard oelf; tt/i grant lioanseß ( tq. those persons upon ap^ > plication personally, of by agent.' They ‘ ’also forwarded notice ef their intention to

appeal to the Supreme Court Mr, 0. Toiing,"fhe father r gt the - Tonnes, ihio Wrote oa his sons’ 1 behalf, stating that there was no arrangement with Mr Qellibrandj or Any other:person by them.'.Tim.'-, all, minuted as ‘‘received.” < The following is the conjoint letter of Phillipabd'William Young:*— !: . '’* ' a ! Having seen a repbrt, - vide Mercury, 23rd April, that the Otago Land* Soaird : 4id not' intend to issue licenses to the purchaser ibf land inthe Strath Taieri district, we, as the respective purchasers of Sections-1 and 3,' blockH.-rsepOctftUlJr request that you will be pleased to, aofari,. . as we are-concerned, .re-oonsider your da» bision and issue oiit licenses at opcej iWith ns-there is nothing to conceal. >:iMr-f' WJ Hellibrahd advised .what ; lota to poricv ohase, and paid the is no agreement with any:personaa to our selling or rehting the lan<L punshaaed by us, and we. think iwe jhaye been harshfcs dealt with by the Board. We have not Uie slightest idfia tihat any.objectipa oouldiT he asto whore ; we money to pay.the deposit,..and wethink the Board will, upon tion, see that they cannot entertain it We hadhointontion of evading thb dence clause. 'We acens under theimpnw■pod? and areso still, - i twdWW months befoie takihg up burnwU * debcS tipbh the 1 point' out the expense it would' c&use iis by making ip- ' plication at present, as we wppld have to return' again to Tasmania to,, make th#.^ arrangemetdfe^iffl^ 'stocking the land, pacing instalments, etc., which arrangemsnWbaiindt biF mido . until the licenses to occupy , are Tajms£" x Trusting that you will see she juatfca of | our remarks apd favorably -consider ottr-- -, -£> request, wejttslt*yjLi!i -■ i Mr 0. M 5 Young, the lather of the two , , selectors mentioned, if rote—. ~y 117{ >j ‘ ; The interest a parent must everfeel in “ the welfare and good name of his children Will, I trust, be sufficients expose, l<w nWpr addressing you.' My sons having heard ' . J that a sale of land undor the deferred payment system .was to he hald. at .Dum-'' -' editC twb l of them, William kfad PSUmfi lift here to attend the,, sale. , s Mr W,tOellibrand, a gentleman in. Wham I have the" greatest' confidence and' who has assisted me ere nbw, offered to select land and pay the. deposit. 1 Having sue* ceeded in. purchasing, they itetdriied to i Tasmania, not to evade the ecoupation (orlrath,er:iheresidence)olause’nortb ayoid being questioned by the Board.as haa - < - fbiHSbtf but to avoid unaecesaacylexpenae and to prepare for their residence on the land/" apd for making arrangements for stock, payment of instalment,'etc.' There wm no arrangement, so iaras’l was aware, and I , should have .known ..if there had - v been,with Mr, Gellibwuid, ‘ or any ‘ other; person, as to renting or 'selling. ihh laud. I do not think the' Board oah reasonably or legally object to where they, obtained, or from whom they obtained,the,.; nioney do'pay the deposits,'or. from whire y j they obtained it, to purohtae ' i it]'dan, then t will sell all thg lij possess (Claremont), and place ’trliat ' : money I can to their credit in the bank* With myself it is no new idea taking dp * * land inJNbw Zealand. I have before me a chart of the New Zealand Agricultural Company’s land, witp letters from the Company’s agents as fo tenure, etc., the truth of which can be ascertained-^/■ * applying to the ageuts at InvercargUL i l ii have also had communication with th»i’-> Minister ;bf Landa,Naw. South Walaa» r: _-y;| who! sent a copy -of-their laud laws; - I‘ have alae been urged by a gentleman im New Zealand (Mr : Thomas York, A „; stoh, CKristrimrch), jb go,down and ini sipw Zealand, whorf;^tj^e,. .. opportunity offered it. was, a,' good' (or two of my boys to go downiand so tide in New Zealand,'bat certainly i£ 'l ; hhd kaown that their going down would have , caused iill this anxiety and annoyance, - ’ thefTnevec should Tiave aeon if jl could have prevented it. -.<i