OPPOSITION TO PROGRESS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 351, 28 August 1878, Page 3

OPPOSITION TO PROGRESS.

The very rapid growth of Wellington (luring’ the past few years, has somewhat hastened the necessity for carrying out a project which has been long looked forward to as some day possible of accomplishment—mamely, the reclamation of the Te Aro Foreshore, and the erection of docks, ship-building yards, anil wharves. There is, of course, an 'opposition party, and the introduction into the House of Representatives of a Bill infilled the Te Aro Reclamation Bill, has made the opposition organise, partly to prevent the passage of the Bill, and partly, so it would appear, to get compensation. The Wellington Chronicle says; u The measure is really not objected to on its merits, but the technicalities of the law are taken advantage ot to thwart the will and injure the interests of the citizens 'of Wellington. The foreshorcnioii have carried out their threat of opposing the Te Aro Reclamation Bill, on the ground that it is of a private nature, and that as the required formalities have not been observed, Parliament cannot now consider the measure. ; They emphatically state that they will not allow their rights to be questioned, and will refuse to treat till the Corporation fully recognises their claims. ‘ We,’ they virtually say, £ are masters of the situation, and yon must yield to our terms.’ However, they will be taught before the matter is ended that they aro not dealing with fools or children. By the high stand they take, they are placing their case beyond tbe teach of compromise. They will force the Corporation to give them their bare legal rights, which, it is needless to say, many competent authorities regard as non-existing. When Sir John Coode was inspecting the harbor, for the purpose of advising as to future improvements, someone hinted that he should * not leave out of his reckoning the rights of certain individuals to the foreshore. Sir* John seemed puzzled at the remark^ and ho enquired how the rights were acquired. Had an Act of Parliament been passed* for nothing short of that could filiehate any portion of the forehore from the Crown. There was no knowledge of such an Act, and Sir John Coode then gave it as his opinion that the owners of property bordering on the harbor had no rights whatever in regard to the foreshore. There should be no better authority on the subject, for Sir John Coode has superintended large harbor projects in several places in the British dominions, and no doubt in many cases which came under his observation, the exercise of the Crown right to the foreshore interfered with the interest or convenience of the owners of property; If any further delay occurs in carrying out the reclamation scheme, it would be well if the question of foreshore lights was referred to a court of law. We have little doubt that the result would sot at rest forever the claims of the property-owners. But it is far from their wish to go to law, a wise idea on most occasions,- and particularly so in the present case. The Bill now before the Legislature, contains ample provisions for compensating any person whose rights may be.infringed by the execution of the work;”

Sane amusement (says a*Wellington contemporary) was caused in the Legislative Council on Thurs 1 ay, by a provision in tli ■ Dog Registration Bill. Itislh 'ivin provided that a dog shall be killed or des-trny.-d. Sir Dillon Bell wished to know liow’ th ■ dog was to bo killed after it w r as destroyed. But, said Sir Dillon, with a mild compliment to whoever drafted the measure, the gem of the Bill was in the 36th clause. There it was carefully directed that the dog should be killed or destroyed by hanging. The lion member deprecated such useless verbiage, when the words that the animals should be destroyed, would have served all the purposes intended.

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