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Evening Star, Issue 4270, 2 November 1876, Page 2

iNQtrniY is needed into the circumstances that induced the Provincial Government to recommend the Waste Land Board to reserve temporarily, which that, body at its meeting yesterday agreed to do, for the purposes of the South Dunedin Municipal Council, some ten acres of land between high and low water marks, and fronting the Anderson’s Bay road. Most people understood that all the land comprising the foreshore has become the property of Was about to be vested in the Harbor Board ; and that understanding must at some very recent time have been known to the Government) else why did they find it ftecMsitiy, when they were negotiating with the promotei s of the Ocean Beach Railway, toaskthe Board’s sanetion to the line passing through this vet yla 11 d ? - 'a 1 1I J^® I ‘® B ta of the public, we should like a little information on one or two points. vf ® Xam P^ e : We are desirous of learning what purposes the reservation in favor of the bt. Kilda Council are intended to be served; f D anxious to know whether or not it 18 the case that the map which was submitted to the Land Board yesterday showed not the natural foreshore, but an artificial one, made so as to include this very ten acres and the greater part of the Ocean Beach Company's line. Some very strange stories are already abroad in reference to this matter; and it would be well to hafe them contradicted officially.