DUNEDIN.
Wednesday. At the Waste Lands Board meeting to-day strong .comment* was made upon the delay that has taken place and the loss that is resulting from the failure of the Survey Department m laying off land ordered to be thrown open for sale. Mr Bastings said he knew cases where people had been waiting with their fingers m their mouths as it were between six and eight months for land to be surveyed and thrown open, and he instanced one case, where a man who had applied to the B.oard and had been to England, to America, and nearly round the world since, and the land he applied for had not been surveyed yet. This man met him at Roxburgh the other day, and-inquired if there was any chance of getting the land before 1880, Mr Strode admitted there was a great outcry, and the hurrying on of surveying operations was _ a pressing want. The Chief Commissioner said that Mr Chief Surveyor Arthur intended to put on more surveyors." Later on, the Board, on Mr Bastings' motion," carried
a resolution requesting the Chairman to ask the Government to increase the survey staff m order to overtake the large amount of arrears m the Survey Department.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 27, 20 January 1877, Page 2
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