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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 44, 16 April 1873, Page 2

The land sales in the Province of Canterbury, for the month of March, amounted to £38,171.’ Taubanoa is again in the field before us. The settlers are memorializing the Government to suspend the “ Militia Act ” in the district of Tauranga. The district they say, “ia now and has long been in a perfect state of tranquility; the “Militia Act" is detrimental to the prosperity of the district; it produces no public advantage, while it entails great inconvenience and serious loss of time to settlers." We do not go so far as our neighbours as to say that a total suspension of the Act is desirable; but there can be no doubt that the quarterly inspection farce is a waste both of public money and private time. The most that can be said of it is that if it does no good, it can’t do much harm. The Bay of Plenty Times sayslt is n proof of “ advancement,” that an Hotel keeper at Tauranga has been robbed of a sirloin of beef and several pounds of sausages! The same journal is also telegramed from Wellington to the effect that the sitting of the Poverty Bay Native Lands Court is postponed. Surely the Government might make it Worth their while to give those immediately interested in these matters some more direct information relative to them.