MEETING AT RIMU.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1923, Page 3

MEETING AT RIMU.

A public ineel ing *.*• a . held in I! iinu la-t I* i nlay to di-eus- the action of the I* orcslry Department in regard to tile State Nur-ery at Rack Creek, all* M. Keetian M.U.C. wa- elected ( hairman. The liilov. itig i'c-o!ulio,i p;*o|io-i*d by toe t .lairmao and .-ecomhal b\* Mr G. Winter, wa- carric, 1 l«v a largo majority "T hat till- meeting mg.upon tin* Government i’a* in** c*-ity ot immediately acipnriug lla* site at ilack (i,.,*k for a Slat.* Nur-ery. That thim* *■ ling is of tie* opinion that the £33') re fused bv the leasees was all exceptionally lib.-mi oiler in view in the tael that, under lie* terms of the lea-'* t hey were not entitled to any compensation w hat -over, and as the returned soldier 00-le *.■ find already been lolly repatriated by Ihe Government.” That a copy of this resolution he forwarded to tie* Prime Miai-ter. I In* .Minister for Land-, tin* .Mouther lor ihe di-t ri. t. am! the Hon 11. 1.. Michel. It was further resolved to ask the Mayor of Hokitika to convene a public ineel mg a! Ihmil ikn I'm* the of di-ctissileg Hi*- (j'le-tioii. (In tie.* motion of Ml* E. Sloop. -*,*- O, aided by .Mr 11. Well-, tin* following , ~s(,|ut ion was carried unanimously-< - •‘That this meeting i- m the opinion that the Fore-try Department have l;,Fen a v* ry unfair stand in increasing the royaltv un timher hv sixty per , out. at a local mill, owned by reiurno,| soldiers, when the priie of timber Pad fallen ap-proximatelv 23 per cent. That the Fore-try Department he urged to forego this increa-e a- it would Pave a -eriotts effect on the returned M .Pliers and al in tin’ local milling sulii-t IT. Mr W. Jeffrie-. Al.kindly nilemlcd rile meeting and gave the benefit of his know ledge.