LAND TITLES AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2547, 7 June 1882, Page 4

LAND TITLES AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

NEW PLYMOUTH, June 6. Mr Samuel, borough solicitor, at the Council to-day, explained the defective atato of titles to property in New Plymouth, in so far as the non-issue of Crown grants is concerned. Ho said there were many oases in town in which persona after getting poateesLn oi property as lessees for a few month*

could turn round and defy the real owner to turn them out, because the owner had no proper title to the land. No Crown grant had been issued, nor any proper conveyance to enable a man to asset 0 hia title in the Supreme Court, There wore Borne valuable properties absolutely lied up, and persona could not get good titles >p account of the gross mismanagement of the Crown Lands Office. Ho had reported this matter to the Government, and since the death of a late borough solicitor the attention of the legal gentlemen in town had been drawn mote closely to this state of affairs. I'be Tair Society had also called attention of the Government to the matter, but the Government had done nothing. The secretary for Crown Landa who came to New Plymouth had been assured by persons in the Land Office that th-.ro rr as really nothing the matter in New Plymouth. Thera wore about a thousand sections for which no Crown grants had been issued. Ha would recommend the Borough Council to bring under the notice of tho Government the disgraceful state of the New Plymouth Crown Lands Office in past years. The Council resolved that the Mayor be instructed to represent to the Government the necessity that existed for investigating the titles of landa in the borough still ungranted, and request that immediate steps be taken to cause grants to be issued. He was aloo requested to go to Wellington to interview tho Government respecting this and other matters.