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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 628, 9 August 1851, Page 2

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a Corres pondent.) At a general meeting of the New settlers, held on the 2d August; tb a P ro P°? al tl } e . in -Chief S mmish the size ot the present town, '■ ■ troduce Pensioners with their familiM • ‘ New Plymouth, it was 7* * That His Excellency’s plan nuyfo 'P out with great benefit to the sections, and to the inhabitants. gsnatS. • That taking into consideration the rL ' tected state of this settlement, it« sirable that the proposed addition Uthk ropean population should. consist, at Jj I the male adults, of the more I sioneiB,v.and to.be so organised as fobt I a defensive force against possible*nuiftu I gression. ■' I That the Resident Magistrate be to transmit these resolutions to the Govenu in-Chief. We understand that it is proposed by the Government to reduce the town, of h/, Plymouth to one half of its and to permit a general re-selection of laijjls. Of the residue, computed at 2?5 acres, 105 acres will be set apart for tvo bundled familiesbf Pensioners (bfiehundred to be obtained from the regiments now set. ving in New Zealand, the remaining hundred to he sent from England); twenty acres are to be set apart for educational ai religious purposes, and the remaining has. dred and fifty acres will be sold in allot ments, at prices less than those now charg. ed for town lands. These arrangement the Governor-in-Chief have caused very neral satisfaction, as it is scarcely posi'J that better propositions could have beendej vised for New Plymouth, situated as it K or any that would be more acceptable to it inhabitants. s 7