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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 6

-Vy . ' [Advertisement] .. ' v ' PETITION. "v. (To His-.Excellency the Governor of th« ■ y • Dominion of, New-Zealand. : ' , 'ri.ULB v humble petition; of the , Undersigned . :-x Timothy Moriarty, of Stillwater, West.land, , New' Zealand,' bHOWETH: That your 'petitioner purchased a piece of land here some years- ago. from' the' Crown, it- tang: Section 575, Block 10, on the m&p of the Arnold Sur•rejr:District. ■It was taken .up under,the- pro? : : visions of the,Land,Act,. 1677, Amendment let,■' 1882, under a:l4 years':lease; : and a'right to ' purchase 'it at the end "of the term/ or the ~ .option to ; take it under perpetual'lease.-as'best • suited-me, the Crown retaining the right to resume it if recuired for COAL-MINING. PXJBPOSES ONLY, by paying compensation. I built '. my home on this land, and established- a'daily . business on it, .and was getting"'op .very. comfortably until .tlio- New Zealand Parliament of 1898, .without any warning whatever, confiscated my right.and sold my'land, houses, and • improvements- to the' Greymoutli, Harbour Board.' ■ This board' sold them to . a .'dredging company, as- the resolutions hereto' attached, . taken, from. the Board's- Minute [, Book' will show, and-this company destroyed my land and washed .my buildings down the Grey River,' : This had tho.elfect of throwing myself and a young, family; out of■ house and' homo. ! ;y' ,