Meeting of Settlers at Campbelltown.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 303, 27 June 1895, Page 2

Meeting of Settlers at Campbelltown.

«. [From Our Own Correspondent.] A very important meeting was held in the Temperance Hal],Campbelltown, last evening, to consider the advisability of petitioning the Minister of Lands to acquire the Carnarvon Estate so that it may be cut up into small farms. The hall was well filled, and Mr Ransom was elected to the chair. In his remarks, the chairman stated that he had been requested by many of the settlers to have a meeting of this kind to see what could be done relative to ' the Government purchasing the Estate. He stated that there were about 7000 acres in the estate, and if it were cut up into farms it would tend greatly to the country being more closely settled. Several gentlemen . spoke in favour of the scheme, and after it had been well discussed, Mr Glover proposed and Mr Knight seconded, That a petition be, drawn up to ask the Minister of Lands to acquire the Carnarvon Estate for small runholdings. A committee, consisting of Messrs Glover, Knight, Koberstein, and Anderson, was appointed to see to the drawing up of the same. The petition is to be left at the post office for a week, where everyone who is desirous of the estate being secured may sign. The above is creating great interest here, for if the estate is purchased it will be a great boom to Campbelltown. The large nunibei* of settlers present at the meeting last night may be considered a good criterion of the interest being taken in the matter.