The Pohangina

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 94, 19 January 1886, Page 3

The Pohangina

On Friday "afternoon a deputation from the Harbor -Bbatd) consisting of ♦MessrsjAibbpt, iGorrtfoeit, aM TdlsTari, : Waited on the membjerrifor; the district; relativetpthe opening up of the PohSn-j gina block,; with, which .the Board is '. endowed. As the-position of affairs <in Connection with -this iendowmfeWte .bu^f^eounderstood byj the general; pubfic, it may be as. weUjtoiistatpj briefly the reason -the deputation was? ifppoliftedii agsnthfejßoara! opene&.up spa^t si lte} ; itt&ib' .ai^d f sold i are?noiW; a^sdoins^t© abibfe sa»s3Wil*?thft i^maiqiag. |po?tipnii;The pj^^ft-f^ai^l f J^ndsi ; liowever,.jdeßiji|e, jtft;jmak6;;^hem not? #isy,«P§n J Wfe4«3^ ::%» layfeg^i roads, but a^9 o j?pp.%ib,ufe one-rtbird, deferred-paymenJLS.ectionß receipts, to Aeiocaliodws fpj.fte pjnej pugp©Bfi. T^^xptein Mhi^er^gbin^i^ -®\ n^pgathe House passed^a "bill making it necessary > { that ( pner^iiisd. of deferred payment,. receipts should, go to local ioaiesj-tnis being passed because the Government TlpHilltbat time -had been in the habit of simply cutting a track into l&de h^d to.sill, leaMng the; new settlers. tp,niake, thrown roads.; The Waste Lands Sqards , decline -to! -mdw'tW fiiS* MaTd'^sell^tiieir lands _without jmaSang a^rp^vfnd this .tlie t B t pa^d qic wjuing ro do,. put,,they |p^^ji»ay^ng^tpf t pay^.,tihe; .oijefjhir^ '.wbaehiheAct provides in^thel-case -of! -oo^e»nm«at ; lafld ifor /the . ssam»-pur-| pose. TKey-*would 'iiavb Jfa^ expend £882 on roads tqf qpen the 5000 acres left, and tkis M tfcey- condder sufficie.nt * w T itto>uti&e-thira : bj'the rebeip^^frdinl r deferred .pay ment sections., .Th^^e-j ' puta^oh merefpf e iwaii f{L on tne' noh.l ..Gentleuianl io',- -see: it he, iassisij ijaemf V-jSfo Bfiilance. pointed^, oiat that it was, entirely- ojityof /his department,! Joeing under the control of the-vWaste. Lands Bbard. : XHe -lagTeed^ f however,' thaj; they should .not; be expected to do; more than open, up theland by roads, : and/promised to put the matter before •'the ' Board in -Wellington;" He recomJ mended the deputation' to see- Mr " Marchant, wKo was then in Wanganu i but on their endeavouring to find him it was ascertained that he had left by the afternoon train r— Herald.