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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 157, 14 June 1884, Page 3

County Council Notices. COOK COUNTY, "VTOTICE is hereby given that it is the inJN tention of the Cook County Council to close a portion of the Gisborne-Tolago Bay Road, passing through Pouawa Block No. 828, and to provide in lieu thereof a new road through the same block, and to exchange with the owners of the land required to be taken, the lands herein described, and which constitute the present road line. Dbscripiios or Land to be Exchanged. AU that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland) in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement, 5 acres 1 rood and a perches, more or less, situate in the Turanganui Survey District, in the Cook County, and being a road line varying in width, and forming a portion of the road known as the Gisborne-Tolago Bay Road within the Pouawa Block, No. 828. Commencing at a point on the Southern side of the aforesaid road, at a distance of 3,250 links or thereabouts, in a Southeasterly direction from Trig Station No. 110. Bounded towards the North-west by a line 225-4 Unks, towards the North generally by lines 53-8 links, 17’8 links, 169’7 links, 116 links, 173-4 links, 385 links, 63-3 links 446’4 links, 342-4 Unks, 209-1 Unks, 285-8 inks, 416 links, 246'4 Unks, 120'8 links, 237'3 links, 521 links, and 100'2 Unks respectively 1 towards the East by a line 604 Unks, and towards the South, by lines, 381-5 links, 211 links, 248'5 links, 374 links, 346'4 links, 256’7 links) 233'1 links, 320'5 Unks, 475'3 links, 291-1 Unks, 179'7 Unks, and 189'2 links to the commencing point, be all the aforesaid linkages, more or less as the same is delineated on plamNo. 837'8, deposited in the Survey Office, at Auckland. Copies of the plans of this land may be seen at the office of the CouncU, Lowe Street, Gisborne, untU the 25th July, 1884. JOHN WARREN, County Cl rk BOth May, 1884. 153 Notices. B . LOCKE Will Address the Electors at ORMOND On SATURDAY Next, the 14th June, at 7.30 p.m., at Bruce’s Hall. lB2 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE EAST COAST.

T7 LECTORS,—My opponents in the present contest have thoughtftproper to put words into my mouth which I have not spoken, and have placed interpretations upon my utterances which are as false as they are manifestly unfair towards me. Mr. Gannon has told you that I would stand with Mr. Bryce for the resumption cf a pre-emptive right on those unalienated blocks of land in Poverty Bay which have not been dealt with* Nothing can be further from the truth. Mr* Gannon knows well, when speaking of pre-emptive rights over Native lands, that I referred to the King Country, and the King Country is not Poverty Bay, nor anywhere near it. If Mr. Bryce proposes that the Government shall establish its right Jo dispose of any portion of the native lands [on the East Coast districts no one will offer stronger opposition to such a scheme than myself; and I hope to give such reasons, and I trust|shaU be ablerto bring such forcc.jo bear, as will prevent Mr. Bryce or any one else, whether in power or out of power, from alienating to the Government of the day and locking up the unsold lands in this part Jthe country. I am, as I have at all times a stauch advocate for free trade in Nativ lands, after titles have been perfected, and nothing left for the lawyers to dispute. My earliest efforts, should I find myself a member of the House of Representatives will be to work heart and soul with those who are willing to initiate a Bill which shall for once and for ever, when it has become law, place the Native lands on such a basis that there shall be no after disputes. Mr. Rjcs hae>aid that I am going entirely for the present Ministry, and that I should be pledged to support them. This is not the case. I go to Parliament with one object in view, and that is to serve the interests of the district. This, however, I feel will not be accomplished by propounding visionary schemes which may in the distant future meet their fulfillment. I go for the present time—for what is practicable, and which, if persistently urged, may be obtained. You want roads through the district, in order that, when the country is opened up, the lands may be accessable for improvement and cultivation. You want more than all, clear and indisputible titles

You want the lands portioned out, so that those who desire and are in a position to occupy them may have no hindrance thrown in their way. Younvant a sufficient endowment, in land or in money, by which a harbor may be constructed. You want the educational reserves in your districts to be utilised for your own purposes, and not to be seized and held in Auckland, You want to have your own registration officers, so that there shall be no going to Napier, or anywhere else out of your own district, in order to have your titles legally certified. These are the great needs I should strive for with all the power and influence which could be brought to bear. The all absorbing question of Federisation and Nationalization of the land are for the future, and both will have to be brought to pass by greater minds and by more experienced statesmen than we at present possess, and when education is universal and all menspringing from the rising genoration, are capable of intelligently considering the possible surroundings of such vital subjects invalving so many opposing interests. Electors, ■I am and shall continue to the end to remain, Your faithful servant, 190 SAMUEL LOCKE.