THE VOLUNTEERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4210, 24 August 1876, Page 2

THE VOLUNTEERS.

Ihis rnohririg- a deputation «bnßisting>'of Gillies, M P.C.,, Major, Stavely, Captains Wales, Jack, Reeves, Sihith, Reid! A?!^ Rob - ert3 A Muir, Jacobs, and M Kenzie, SubJaeutenant Lambert, and Sem°r dP.Q. Jamieson waited upon ‘ Ms Uonorthe Deputy Superintendent. • R , kevks that the object orthe deputation was to obtain the Crown Grant of sectionlO, block 16, Dunedin, whiclr was to have been vested the oiimte-rsfor the purpose of a drill-shed. rh ® p r°' v^inGial Conned had agreed to a resolution to that, effect .oh the 28th. July, 1873, but through an error in the first sentence of .the “ Ordinance to provide tor the managment of the Drill Shed Reserve at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago ” it was rejected by the Assembly. The triangular piece at the comer of Dowßhg and High streets had been Crown grants and vested in the Superintendent. This-section was promised to the Volunteers in constquence of the Drill Shed bn the High School Reserve haying been required fbr 'school purposes. ' '*

a° me piaM of block- 18 were produced and explained by members of the-depnta-

His Honor said he would take the usual course auditing the matter before the Executive. However, it would be a monstrous waste of space, to build a Drill Shed in the centre of the City, Major Stavely : We want to get a revenue from it. That is the real fact of the case-

. Captain Reeves thought that, the deputahad made out a clear ease , in .favor of the Crown grant being issued. . Honor-promised to put 1 the thklber fairly before the Executive, and the deputa* txod thanked him and withdrew.