SALE OF ST. BATHANS TOWNSHIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 257, 6 February 1874, Page 2

SALE OF ST. BATHANS TOWNSHIP.

We have repeatedly pointed out how unjust are the continued delays. of the . Waste Lands Board in eoming to a decision with regard to the sale of St. Bathans township. If the Board of Inquiry had not investigated the question,*there - might be less ground for complaint, but it ~ is well known that the result of the inquiry has long ago been placed in the - proper official hands. As a proof of the injustice inflicted upon individuals by thisdilatoriness of decision, we publish, at the request of a valued subscriber, the following copy of his application for a quarter's business License. The facts speak for themselves. In the face of a distinct promise, made unconditionally by the Goldfields Secretary in the last session of Council, an extra imposition has been put upon the holders or business licenses to the tune of £3 per year apiece, or £3 in the whole year in excess of the upset price of their sections :: —. [copy,} .'.-.-. St. Bathans, Ist Feb., 1874. To H. W. Robinson, Esq., Warden, Naseby. 'Sir,—-Please find cheque enclosed for £2" ; ls. stg!, payment for a three months'busi'hess license, which you "will oblige by sending me on receipt of this. Please date the license from 2nd February inst. The annual fee is £5, so that £2 per quar? ter brings in £3 per year in excess of that}.; amount; and as the enclosed is my third, i£not my fourth, quarterly-payment since a promise was given by. Government that, the;, township was about to be sold, I cannot say that I ever complied with payment of a de- - mand so grudgingly. . I am, &c, ". '- -