ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 457, 10 September 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

[We are at all times ready to give expression to every shade of opinion, but in no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the sentiments of our correspondents.] DEFERRED PAYMENT LAND. (To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, —As Editors of newspapers are supposed to know everything, and as the electioneering campaign is now over,and as you have probably time and space at your disposal, would you be kind enough to answer the following questions ; 1. Is any person under eighteen years allowed to select land under the above system ? 2. How much land in the aggregate is one selector allowed to hold ; and if one section is not enough, will he be allowed to select others, as long as the aggregate does not in all exceed what the Act allows ?

3. If a man owns, say 600 acres freehold, will he bo allowed to select on defeired payment besides what he already holds ?

4. Is the land about to be sold on the Mountain Road to be sold under modified conditions, or under the Act as it stands. The land referred to is all dense bush, and no poor man could keep the conditions as to occupation and cultivation without a modification in the Act. There is not the breadth of a tent of open land, nor one blade of grass to feed a horse on ? 5, If this land is to be sold under modifier] conditions,, would you kindly state what they are ? '

7. Are there copies of Deferred Payment Act for sale in Carlyle? 8. If a selector takes up deferred payment land, can he purchase for cash as much land as he likes afterwards ?

*B. Is the land to be sold on 11th October, in Hawera, to be for cash down, or a percentage, and the balance in one month ? 9. When will the land now surveyed south of Mangowhero to Normauby be offered for sale ?

Sir,— By you kindly furnishing answers to the foregoing questions, you may save intending selectors a great deal of trouble, as no person will care to take up land in a dense bush except the modification in the regulations is made acceptable, as there is plenty of open land on the Waimate that will be in the market shortly. A man would require to be in this bush, on his section, twelve months before he could have a bite of feed for his saddle horse, and might get the Maori scare before the half of the time. Please to state in your answers whether there are lithographic plans for sale of the land ; if not, whether people would be able to take tracings oif the plan in the Land Office gratis.—l am, &C., STRANGER. Normauby, September Bth, 1879. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. 1. No. 2. A man is allowed to take up any number of sections, as long as he keeps within the limits of the Act. 3. Yes. If a man owned 640 acres or over, he could not take up. 4. The land will he sold under the Act as it stands. 5. Answered by No. 4. 6. No. They can be obtained from the Government Printer in Wellington. 7. Yes. 8. One-fourth cash, and the balance in one month. 9. Don’t know. Lithographs can be obtained on application to the Land Office, Oarlylo, for la.

TARANAKI WESTE LANDS BOARD. (To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, —One out of many greviences that the settlers have to complain of, is the mannerin which the Taranaki Waste Lands Board have shut up the land in this County from settlement. What we do want is, that one-half of the members of the Board should be chosen from the Patea District, and the place of meeting to be at Stratford. If Taranaki will not agree to this, then let the General Government take the control of all Waste Lands in this County into their ovru hands, for this district has been long enough treated in a most shameful manner by the Taranaki Board, who have by their actions sent hundreds of men out of the district, as well as thousands of pounds. Is it not disgraceful to bo importing timber from the other Island to the edge of one of the finest forests in New Zealand. It is high time the settlers took this matter in hand, and had a reform.—l am, &e., PROGRESS. Normanby, Sept G, 1879,