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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1311, 19 April 1883, Page 2

W* do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinion* expressed by our correspondents). TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—By your kind permission, and knowing that through the columns of your valuable papers, you always try to rectify any public wrong existing in this district. Myself in common with other settlers would like to call the attention of the public to the abuse of the deferred settlement lands now existing here. As the public are aware, some three years ago, a sale of deferred payment lands took place in Gisborne, and the conditions to be complied with were read out by the Government Officer, and a number of deferred payment sections were sold Persons were allowed to purchase these lands who had no intention of complying with the conditions of the Act, Now, should the purchasers of those lands rightly understand the conditions the Government fully intended them to comply with, they must have bought with a fraudulent intent, therefore I think that they should be made to foifeit those lands, so that they should again be put into the market, and allow mon to become bona fide settlors. Men who would improve the land and comply with all the conditions of the Act, for the Government never contemplated, when the deferred payment of Lands Act was brought into force, that persons should be allowed to have a substitute residing on those lauds while the actual owners live within the suburbs of Gisborne. Now, Sir, I ask you is it doing justice to the hard working settlers of thi« district who have been waiting for years in hopes of getting a homestead for themselves and families so as to better their condition, have no chance of so doing through these men having a substitute residing on those lands without improving them, so that at the expiration of their time they can sell and secure the unearned increment.—l atn, &c., Th os. Wright. Matawhero, April 18th, 1883.