MARKET GARDENING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2770, 12 August 1924, Page 3

MARKET GARDENING.

ON COUNCIL PROPERTY.

BOND DEMANDED BEFORE SUB-LEASE GRANTED. At last night’s Borough Council ■meeting an application was received from Messrs Evans Bros., lessors of the Target Reserve, to sublease portion of the land to a Chinaman, Fong Tim, for the purpose of using the ground as a market garden: term of sub-lease to be for three years.

The Mayor said he did not like the idea of the only good piece of the whole reserve living used as a market garden hv Chinamen. He said they wore in the habit of forcing the ground and that at the expiration of (lie lease the ground would lie good for nothing. Or. Bryant also spoke in opposition fo granting the application. The Mayor said the Council had the ratepayers to consider and if the ground was ruined, the whole reserve would he worthless. Cr. Adams: The whole reserve, with the exception of the strip mentioned, is not worth six-pence an acre.”

After further discussion and the perusing of the agreement with the lessors, it was decided that the application by Messrs Evans Bros, lessors of the Target. Reserve, to sublease portion of such reserve to Fong Tim, be granted provided that £SO be deposited with the Council to re-vitalise the soil at the end of the three years mentioned in the sub-lease, and when sneli nloney has been paid over, the Council’s consent be given without prejudice to any of the clauses in the original lease which Messrs Evans Bros, will be responsible for observing such deposit of £SO shall not relieve Evans Bros, of the duty of ploughing and grassing the land sublet as provided in the lease to the satisfaction of the Council.