EDUCATIONAL RESERVES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 243, 3 April 1883, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL RESERVES.

. ; TO THE EDITOR, Sih,-^Fr( m the report .of «the last meeting of. the School Commissioners it appears that 'there is now w&tf*M Q sss\&)b%t d^frict education reserves being shut up from settle* ment till we can obtain'fnrfch'e'r'ldgislation. The Government consents .to these lands bsing <ff :red in accordance with the pro* visions of the liana^ke^ "But' iW temisi" 3 ' l | sioners appearidg : tp {think- jthat T ,they Y know better than the Legislature or the Government, or the people, refuse to consent that any pi this land shall be offered under the perpetual Je ising law, passed last session. Whenever land has been offered for cash ,in this district heretofore;* it&asVbeenT prins cipally bonght by speculators and squatters. Butjfor the deferred payment;" system in this district, I believe we should have had little er bo first-hand settlement. Although the Com • nfissioners agree to some d.p, settlement, they desire to sell for cash, - and refuse to. - leasp any. x j&; nil (tZtIHTUO'4 lie Commissioners havfi -,oot, I believe, been changed, but the Government and di«% trict members have often during all the years that* this' land bWbee'n' locked up tttdPtffi fTI people have been crjing out^for it : therefore •*- --we Are justified in bßliering tba't'for the evils ourfdifl't'ricthash'ad'to 'aiiffiAf 'fchWu'gti ftiJe^^ causey the : law vesting ! these v lahaß )! in odmmftfe**'J sioners is to blame; and' neither" Government! > to* district mkm befa. . nt»q# wa« 11 'causey 'it^itf tiffign6*BiflJfilct>*™ cease'to operate. The niani'gemßnt'of thlsei^" landß»hould ; bevestgd in th'e'Wa^tk^Ljinds^f* Boarci, ana : they shouldbe dealfc^WltS' pfS-.I cigely; as 'other Grown Lmds t *\ttoA'\ tills^hia^ssa has, been effected we can' hope for no ;>' abate ">}*i?s ment in the hindrance ioprogcesß.w^ch&hef «;>;>« people of! this^distriot havethai thetmisfotfa ai tune to have thrust upon themiflby Itheseu/fa reserves for the public beaefib being, m>de in lT their, district?,— l am, &p; tv . .., „.. .,,,-, ..,_ \.*,.{:'kn& ,Ist April, 1883. .-M«iw.'«iil : { ; -f-TiC ■'■■' i I') :r-l> ! :-UYV T7a £*o^