The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1 889. Pemberton Settlement
In another column we publish, a letter frooo a niernber' of the "PenYherton Small Farm Association, whi6b -appeared in the Wangan ui Herald on Tuesday last: Tbere can be no question that the settlers interested are -bjeing hardly dealt with. FirstJ they, were subjected to a heavy Joss by the defalcations of their Secretary, Dudley Bybb. This loss, after - a hard struggle, a large majority, were pre--pa*ed to.meet; in fact it would appear tbere were only two exceptions. " But'
their second calamity is the deliberate act of the Minister of Lands, who has said he will " allow the Association to take the land under the . Village " Settlements conditions- that is, pay £5 per acre for town sections and £3 &»• suburSau." There is an apparent iujusti-6 about 'this way of treating hard-working and industrious settlers, which arouses natural indignation. Neither is such conduct honest, because the^original charge for the laud by the Government was-JEI per- acre with 2s -6d added for survey," therefore, even allowing for the " unearned incremeut" added By 'the "iucreaaed pop-" 1 ulation in \that anil the surrounding settlements, the outside value for such' town sections would now be only £"3 per acre/ It is clear the Association are willing to complete their part uf the bargain as "made in the first instance, but the fact of their not having- done so" before (from no de- - fault of theirs) 19 the weak point of \ which the Minister of Lands has taken "advantage. Tbe members of the As-' sociation are therefore to be made to suffer equally from a dishonest official and an unsympathetic Minister. We do not. for a moment mean to imply that the Government" of the colony should be expected to make good a deficiency for which they are in no responsible, but .we. do' state emphatically they have no right to attempt to profit by the misfortunes of the Association. We cordially sympathise with these settlers, and trust that they will maintaiu • a? bold front and manfully resist . this attempt to crush them'. { "
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 72, 5 December 1889, Page 2
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