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New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 450, 7 August 1850, Page 4

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ADDRESS TO THE HUNDREB OF ONEHUNGA. July Bth, 1850. THE WARDENS of Onehunga being aware that the Government Gazette is not conveniently within the observation of all persons, had determined on re-j publishing the summary of their proceedings thus farj in the Auckland public press ; in order that the measures adopted by them may be brought to the immediate knowledge of all persons within the Hundred, whether licensed or unlicensed : and thus by a complete aud entire view, the subject may obtain a more general and minute investigation ; the expense, however, being too great they can only refer to Gazette No. 7, April 13, and Gazette No. 13, June 7. ' Aciicular from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, under date 6th Dec, 1849, is on record, calling on certain persons to contribute towards disseminating the principles of the Crown Lands Ordinance, and contains this passage : " As the successful operation of the above important scheme will materially depend upon the co-operation of the persons whose interests it peculiarly affects, &c." the Wardens conceive there can he no better mode than by bringing the efforts of the Wardens to introduce a system for the supervision ' of the duties deputed to them to the test of public opinion and individual experience. The conflicting interests, the great variety of personal position and circumstancd the changeable nature of the property supervised, and the different quality of localities ; all tend to render it almost impossible to devise generally approved regulations in the first essay, nevertheless the very errors and omissions of the pioneeri will tend i to develope more clearly the principles of the jurisdiction. At this point we may quote an extract from a reply to some points submitted to the Honorable the Attorney-General, under date 25th March, 1850, " I may observe that it was an important object of the Ordinance in question to introduce on a limited scale the principles of self-Government by means of representative institutions." If then these premises be assumed we cannot but say, there has been a supineness in this Hundred in this particular in the more extcn. sive proprietary — to which perhaps we owe the honorary position we now fill— yet we would endeavour to awaken to a consideration that voting even in a minor* ity would at least evince a disposition to acknowledge the principle set forth ; a principle so frequently exercised in every step of the social government in our father land, that to be without would argue a degenerating stage. In a new country, limited in numbers, were many to retire themselves from public oil, not only would their principles be unknown, but the result would produce such a paucity of active members that they would soon verge into the mere implements of an overwhelming authority— negative members can never expect either iheir sentiments or wishes understood. In the regulations following it will be seen that we have not adopted any numerical depaiturage, and which may be considered as an unwillingness to limit in» dividuals by our judgment of the capabilities of the waste lands, but on reflection we think it will be admitted, from the peculiarities of our Hundred and its limited available hnds on the northern portion, that the principle of withdrawing butcher's meat, relieves the Hundred sufficiently. to depasture with advantage all stock required by the farmer at his homestead, the divisiou or disturbance of which in a district become so general on the dairy, would have been seriously injurious to many without we conceive advantage to any : and the exclusion of the stock of persons without land or otherwise anlocated (which seems to have bean with us the most needful point) is effectually obtained by the penal clauses of the Ordinances themselves, leaving us simply the identification and protection of our own stock, aud as the small disjointed tenures formerly existing, are fast closing up to moderate mci and respectable proprietaries, the principle of self defence is put by clause 8 of the regulations into the hands of every one who has placed himself in the position to be benefited thereby, by paying for a license. The small portions of Crown Lands existing as generally available, viz., 20 acres Three King*— two or three sto 7 acres pieces,— and about 30 acres near Mr, Hari'i, the 110 acres public reserve on One Tree Hill, and the unoccupied precincts of the Village, cannot be named as feeding runs ; and the 450 on the bay westward of Mr. Hayr, as also that other portion on Mount Smart, are too remote for dairy stock daily required at the homestead and to ltcenie male stock to run in the latter portion, where no division can be effected to preserve them from the Panmure run, would entail on the Hundred generally the expense of a daily Ranger, which the limited number of stock that could or would take advantage thereof would not compensate for the expense incurred. But on the Muugarie portion sufficiently remote to prevent the mixing in with the stock of the homesteads, and being without the supervision of owners, a special Ranger has been provided, on such economical arrangements as the case demands. And here a small assessment teems called for properly on the use of such run as unquestionab/y is taken with a view to sufficient subsistance, But at the Ranger cannot be responsible for such stock, he is left at liberty to engage with such licensed persons who may desire to benefit therefrom for their more particular care ; in which view the assessment will be regulated as low as possible, while it is presumed it will be sufficient to keep the enjoyment under legal control. On the erection of a pound, we have to note we were in treaty sometime to join in with the Auckland Hundred, which however was ultimately found unconducive to their in crests, and since then we have found that the uncertainty of the proceeds meeting the expence and trouble of private speculation, has defeated our expectation of its being done by tender ; and the difficulty of choosing, for the short period, a posi'ion obtaining the approval of the future Wardens, has determined us (in the expectation of the little necesiity) to look io foreign resource on that head. The difference in our conclusions from other Hun[Continued in Supplement.]