SELECT COMMITTEE on GOLDFIELDS

Dunstan Times, Issue 529, 7 June 1872, Page 2

SELECT COMMITTEE on GOLDFIELDS

—o — following has bean kindly handed to us for publication by Mr. T. L. Shepherd, Member for the District;— Interim No. 4. Report. —ln re Petition of the Mayor and Town Council of Cromwell. Your Committee having considered this Betition, recommend that the Government introduce an ordinance this Session to enable the Corporation to deal with Block 9, Town of Cromwell, as prayed by the Petitioners. THOMAS L. SHEPHERD, Chairman. Interim Ho. 5. Report. Your Committee having considered this Petition, and taken evidence, report as follows.—That the Petitioners constructed a road from the bottom of the Garrick Ranges to the Quartz Workings which is most valuable, and absolutely necessary to the development and working of the reefs. That it was proved to your Committee that such road cost the petitioners the sum of 3361,, Your Committee therefore recommend that that the sum of 1681. bo .'paid to the Petitioners as a refund sum, being one half the amount expended by the. THOMAS L, SHEPHERD, Chairman. Interim No. C, Report. —ln re shareholders of the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company. Your Petitioners having considered this Petition, and examined Mr. Barr, the Government Engineer, and Mr. Simpson, the late District Engineer, and Mr. Logan, one of the Petitioners, report As follows : 1. That the Petitionars who are Miners, were the first to develop the Bendigo Reefs. 2. That the Petitioners have expended the sum of 3361. i» the construction of a road from Wakefield to Legan-town. 3. That the said road hos been, from the time it was constructed, most valuable to the public as a means of communication to the rising district of the Bendigo Reef. 4. That the expenditure incurred by the Petitioners was absolutely necessary to the opening of the reef, and so the Petitioners could not have waited until the amount was voted by the Provincial Council. 5. Your Committee therefore recommend that one half of the amount expended by the Petitioners, namely, 1031., be paid to them. THOMAS L. SHEPHERD, Chairman. Interim No. 7. Report.—ln re Petition of 250 residents—merchants, miners, and other, Dunstan, Your Committee having considered this Petition, recommend : 1. That the Prayer of the Petitioners be complied with, and that the Government cause all lanps in the Leaning Rock Survey District, (urged to be auriferous by the Petitioners.) to be reserved from leasing, under the Agricultural Leasing Regulations. 2. That all auriferous land in the said Loaning Rock District already leased, should not be sold to the lesecsc. THOMAS L, SHEPHERD, Chairman.