PORT LEVY LICENSING DISTRICT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 584, 17 February 1882, Page 2

PORT LEVY LICENSING DISTRICT.

Thk Tort Levy Licensing District, says the Gar;etle,\s " bounded towards tho west by the summit of the Port hills ; thence by a straight line through Trig, station LI to Mount Herbert; thence by a straight line to Mount Herbert Peak; thence by the Mount Herbert Peak road and the Piirau and Akaroa road to a point on the summit of the range where the ridge of the spur between Dacanter Bay and Little Akaioa Bay intersects it ; towards the East by the said spur to the sea ; towards the North by the sea to Church gully in Church Bay ; thence by a srraight line across the harbor to the south-east corner of the Native reserve at Kaupaki. following the uorth■eastern boundary of said reserve to the :'ort lulls, tho place of commencement."

Now, everyone ncquainted with the County' knows that this includes the two thickly peopled neighborhoods of Pigeon Bay'and Governor's Bay, and that there is n large and very sparsely populated region between, difficult of access, becnupc. the hills are steep. vr>.<\ the roads, ••owing to the scarcity of human beings. few and bad. Some wise Government €leTk in Wellington, however, probably with ihe nid of a map and a pair of compasses, «nd Inst, but not least, a total ijgnormif-e of the country, decreed that this should be our; of the Licensing Districts of the Peninsula, and it was originally Guseffed as one ol" those over which our own U.M., Mr Aylnicr, should preside. As, however, a part of Ibis awkward piece c>: land is war Lytteiton find out of Mr Aylmer'e Magisterial district, ho pointed it out to tho Government, and our old friend Mr Ollivier, was Gazetted returning officer. Xo doubt seeing thcit the name of the district was Port Levy that gcmleniiin has nctivilly appointed the Post OSlico at Port Levy as the place of nomination. Xow, Pigeon Buy hasjiad ft public house, and may again, for it is a considerable centre, and of course there are puveiiv! hotels in the neighborhood of Governor's Bay. but there never can bo such a thiiiif at Port Levy, except under strangely changed conditions, for there is no popuhiti-.ju. Once a woe.c Agar cml Roberta visit ;be place in tho Lytteiton to bring away produce nnd convey the few inhaiiitiiiitd to Lytteltnn if they so desiro. hut Liiiii is lUuiosr. Ihuir sole communication vvitli thij out.". , world. Of sheep thore are plenty, !»ut"l : men and women ic.w indeed and how Air Oiiivier ran have possidly ]fi;.lied on sui.-li a leinoie iou.diiy lor ihe nomination is mute ;han we can !eh. except it was doii-j in hi Her na.ire o.i the Governliient for creating a hideously unworkable moiistor in ihe shape of a licci- ..:,._ .i:..*_:.. 1... ~i !.',,„!- I „„,,