MEETING AT FITZHERBERT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 80, 17 July 1878, Page 2

MEETING AT FITZHERBERT.

A meeting of the settlers arid owner* of prope •ty m ike. Mtzharberton Block: was lield on Monday evening, at Shen?- ' si one Fai'in. . M;\P. E. Warburton iras- \ . balled lo the chair, and amongst those pveseat we noticed .Messrs Brucej'Aa-' cf.ovson, John Munro,Newcqme, Collins, <PaVfces, Willerinaa, and .Guodecsoa. „ The CiTAiBMAX: explained that he had .been requested to convene a meeting of -be set.le-.'3 on the south side of ;the•;iv<e ; yin o.dei that they should sqme combined aclion up as to have I'leivwaniS attended to m the various 1 'local governing, bodies. . Ab present it . seeoaed as they were outside' toe pale of I'^ilisatiou, and it appeared thac they we-'e without a gaaidian either p.'aoU.* v. ca'ly o,' literally.' "'■'} ?' [:.';■ ;, i; /. ; Mr J. Munro oharacLOtHsed tie manner m wuich iUe sel. tiers' of Fitzherbeyfe . -had been i rta'tedidf years pastas somei.ii ig sfam-atous. Persons who had.}>nr» ca.t.sed laud ou the disCinct pmmise r.O.i i lie; Pi'o?:flciat Gore ameiit tliafe .-oacls wotold he iu:ule witkout delay, had hooeii 6a fov yißars aad tUea either sold out 0v v hiovrn:u{j iheT Ldld«<igs iai disgasi. He thouglit Utey had not oily a i*'ghtio aslc liiafc the raU»»ittoir : eoliecled m thai district suould be M-» beaded m making the vouds ia t}\& lot .vlity, but Ih-ii they could feirlylijr , c : aitn to a refund of what had been pokL ■ja the past. . * Mr Brucb heartily a^i % e»d"wi(h (he^ : lasi s ; >ea(£ev, add he thought that, wheat ..»ey were foi'lunale enough' to poises* a Warden i < e>>reseulingFit2hei t bert, on* of his fist mores should be m that uoali or. He thoaghi ihe application-fay ! a vexund might be put forward m Xti* vollowing inannev: That inasmuch 1» ;lte rates collected for the last five yeara^ had bee a loa ned to Ihe olhee side of the r've?, the time ha 4 arrived when t]te i y > should be paid back, arid emended on. ■heii* legitimate purpose. He thought Ihiit oue reason wiiy nothing had bee.» done was thai the Highwayrßoa*'<l fcatt been depending upon the Grovernineat ip do me -work, and as i hey bad not,, FiLzherbert had come to grier. Mr Munbo siited that pa one occa- . sion he had applied to the Wardeu wuq was supposed to look a ftei* their interests, but was met with the. reply that lie would not give ,th© district; pa«t pen avj arid that the land was no good,, : .a»d had -been sold above its value* When complaining of the treat meutf at • lie haadst qi; th&ir ; 3fepresenlatiTe;tQ (heCDairmau l of the Board, that geatlemaa . had Lolct him that thejaxaUer wasia th»hands o£ the Warden, and that it was aa' agreement amongatthe body that tlio Boa»;d would not interfere m the wo.k« i.ijj of any particular Ward by il» .Warclea. . ■ ; Mr Batrcß informed the meeting ,that> lye believed slops were being laken for oieciin^ a Warden to the Board fop the •Fi . ishelujerlon Blook, although he wa»AOi , quite posled up .as (p when th^ ele.iioa would take place. ; "..,, ; Mr Munbo then p-oposed, and Mpc Pakkes seconded: "That the Warden, / w.-ien elealed, shoqld ask.the HighwayBoai'd that the amount of 'Jiaies-coU lecied pa the Filahevberb side since the fiu'juaiiou of the. Highway, Board, less TOOi'fcing expenses, should be «rp«ided io iliat dis/ rict."7-oarried. :.■■■'■'.(■.' I-.i supporting the resolat'on, Mr Nfiwcoiis denounced in>trong language t .lie acion of ihe various local: govern- *' ia g bodies, instancing the determi ned - manner m which it was spaghito;expend the £200 voted for ibridg^ \>j \ making voadi. on the Palmerston side. Hesaid that although, perhaps, he did riot own as many acres as others^stUl =• he was m a far worse position by Ilia ne^leoi; w'-'h which they .Bad be#tv Vi'eaied. He had been given one bun* died^aci'es ot land onder "tiie Inimigra-s (ion ApI ,' because he bad paid his owri; a<nl liis faaiily's passage fo the, Oolpriy — ami' he'had seleoled it at F'tzhftrbevi because it was near to bit wprk^ H.^

hadfeoced and felled the bush at an erpense- ! pf £1GO, ! built a house which had cost him £160, aod carried the material four miles oq his back, aud now, through there befog no road to )', he was not only uoable to put bis family upon ii , but be was actually liable to . be turned off of it because- of not so doing. The Ch:aibman,' than. read an extract frooi Mr Mac.a.iihur'.s speech — as pubr Jislied m the Manawatu Times — at lite Woodville meeting, aud. m connection, therewith, he also read a lellec whicU he bad received from Mr Alex. Rutherford iodignantly denying that he was eiihei* the' agent of a parJy of speculators, ov that it was his intention to cut his properity up into a bogus towo-/ ship. The letter further stated tb?t Mr Rutherford .would be happy to cooperate wiih the settlers m any manoer for thegood of the district. Mr Newcome said that he had readwilh some iodignation the attack which Lad been made by Mr Macarlhur, bo/h «ponMr Dalrymple and Mr Snelspn. Of course he (the speaker) could tiot say whether either gentlemen had been spoken' to by speculators ; but wtjeu MrMacarthur asserted that Mr Sne.U Bon's action was not taken at tl»e request of the bona fide seltlei's, ]>c re Lbe/ateiy slaled what was not I ue, fo* lie himself knew that the resident o": Fizheybert had been so coufiuu&l'y badger- QgVolh Mi' Dairy oipie sail SneJson, that they we> f e a^osfc- a-' a ; d tomeetaFilzherbert man." . IttjpHAiHMAK said that it was ihe Tc.yfiiiDlessence of : cool oess on the part imMr Macarthui* to denounce Mr s Ruihei ford's intention of culling up 'j>s ; 1600atf.'es, or to chavaclev'se him as belooj»ing tp-a pavty of specula! ors, w lien it wns weli Ldowq that Mr Macaque was the lieuteuanb of an o.'^aoised company of speculators. Befo celt he •-separ? led i b was resolved that Mr P. Wa biiiion wait upoatho Highways Board at its nest siiihig, iand ascertain what sieps wer.e beiug taken to give FifzLevbe-fc a representative at the Board., add seek other information connected therewith. .;.;.;.•; „; .;;■•.■ ':;.. :