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 Taupo country, capable of at once carrying 15,000 sheepi.” 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 sesecuring on behalf of his Excellency the Governor, who. was .reported some time back as. about to open the Taupo country to settlement by himself taking up a run there ? We hope it may turn out that neither of these is the case, but that the paid servant of the public has acquired for his employers the right to such a valuable piece of pasturage, and that it is intended to dispose of the right by' public competition.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 22 April 1867, Page 93
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192OFFICIAL LAND SHARKING. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 22 April 1867, Page 93
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