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THE WASTE LAND BOARD AND THE REIDSTON RAILWAY RESERVES.

At t.be Land Board meeting yesterday, the Ooim„goners apm.ntod to inquire into the circumstances conusctea with the sa'e ©f ni\. SwH 30 - VCB at R3i(lßton » reported 'as reJJifA ," rpen S 10 havj beea sales of land rad W purposes in Reidstou-thefirst },*• and the second m December. 1874 SrS,° 7 JT' t0 th % flrsfc insteSeS wicaregaul to the reservation of certain Rpctinno were sent by Mr SlMonn to the nuctiS at Oamoru by telegram, which means of conveying the information it was (omul necessary to re;'ort tn m consequence of, at the last moment, it having wWw£ OVCrod thl i t a 1)1,111 of the township upon which the reserved sections had been colored by the District Engineer, had been sent in error to Dr Webster, then Provincial Secretary of Lands who was at the time at Oamoru. instead of toX ’llnd Office at Dunedin. At this first sale two verylm portant reserved sections (sections Sand 10 block 4 Eeidston) were sold by mistake in the Wry of business I'lcondueting the sale. This the auctioneer admits in ms evidence to have taken place notthe instructions referred to to the cratrary. With repaid to tlie disposal of the other sections on a subsequent date, which should have been reserved from sale for railway purposes the Committee are clearly of opinion that the blame rests, not with the auctioneer, but with the officers of the Land Department, whose duty it was to make the neceas iry inquiries and issue the proper instrucT i*n y *° 1 nsider th * the auctioneer, notwithstanding the telegram sent to him in the month of a.Sl s *?” 1 ™? 8 * al ? ould h ? VQ , - >GBII reminded not to seu the sections in question. It appears to the Committee extraordinary that not nhtil the 10th February, 1875, a period ofnenrlv two months after the whole of the sections in ™ 1)3611 sold - , . i ncludiug- a second sale of railway reserves, was there a record placed on the maps of the Land Office, distinguishing the sections required (or railway purposes auctions o w e . ro i 8 T evidence before the Committee to show upmi whom the responsibility rests of supply, mg the Laud Office with information as to reserves required .or General Govern mentor other purposes, but it Is evident that, in order to avoid simile com ! pbcations, to some officer should be distinctly anpomtod the systematic performance of this duty/ latlo di jussiou that followed Mr IvßiD mentioned thathe had suggested a course Ldwu'ated (o avoid similar complications m future, hj it tho Lhief Commissioner had declined to give effect to it. The him? Coil mission hr :As tho Executive has the chii’ ge of the oaly department where reserves can be known—namely, tho Survey Department—l decline the reapmuibiUty of doing na tqdioat.n, Mr Rail); The fact la that—to put it very plunlv—l am convince I that if the ‘Waste Land Ho ad, through it< chief officer, does not attempt to meet the Executive in a better spmt, f, ;• the purpose of preventing mistakes, 11 D Ift prevent I suggested a course to the 1 ’hief Commissioner that he oou.d meet me and the Executive, instead of that ;> unt-blank bluqt and offausivo manner of rerue>;;g In ftiva assist.-utor in any way. The i'HU i' Commission sr ; 1 think that matter should hardly be brought up here, Mr Keid. 1 have seen the Superintendent, and have suggested a course which I think he will inprove qf, 1 , r , said he hail not heard of it yet, and objected to this way of speaking to the Supertendent. All communications should Le in writing. The Chairman : The Superintendent spoke tome, apd not J to him, X plainly and clearly deglinu to take an y >cm p m ability that I am not In a position to auct. Mi Bastings did m w-c how the Chief Commissioner could shirk .VI responsibility, occupying the'positlou which he did. Mr Strode ; Some officer should have it made distinctly bis duty, so that these mis takes should not occur, (fere are reserved sections sold m July, • 574, and a similar mistake is perpetrated m December, 1874, Under a proper system that could pot be, Mr OtiARH. j There is something wrong • there is a want of connection between tlie various offices.

On the motior. of ',L it was miiiiiteu— That :ne report bo received and adopted, and that the Chief Commissioner be requested to curvy out the recommendations contained in it, in order to prevent mistakes in jl ur ®‘ which the Chief Commissioner added a memo to the effect that he would do so as far as he could, but that he had not means at his disposal fully to do so.

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Evening Star, Issue 3794, 22 April 1875, Page 3

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THE WASTE LAND BOARD AND THE REIDSTON RAILWAY RESERVES. Evening Star, Issue 3794, 22 April 1875, Page 3

THE WASTE LAND BOARD AND THE REIDSTON RAILWAY RESERVES. Evening Star, Issue 3794, 22 April 1875, Page 3

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