OFFICIAL LAND SHARKING.
We (Canterbury Evening Mail) are surprised to read in a Wellington telegram dated March 20, published in the next day’s Nelson Examiner, that! “ Defence Secretary Holt secured a 30,000-acre run during his recent trip through the Taupe country, capable of at once carrying 15.000 sheep.” If this is for himself, we cannot conceive anything more improper than that a public officer, paid by the public for the performance of certain duties, in which he has to deal with the natives, and can exercise in consequence of his office much influence over them, should be allowed to make use of those opportunities to monopolise what ought to be public property. Or is this securing on behalf of bis Excellency the Governor, who was reported some time back as about to open the Taupoi country to settlement by himself taking! up a run there? We hope it may I turn out that neither of these is the case, but that tlie pnid servant of the| public has acquired for las employers 1 the right to such a valuable niece of ; pasturage, and that it is intended to! lispose of the right by public cumpe- i titioii.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 472, 22 April 1867, Page 2
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197OFFICIAL LAND SHARKING. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 472, 22 April 1867, Page 2
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