The Telephone. WITH WHICH INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 301, 4 December 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4.

Some dissatisfaction is being expressed at the action taken by the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company m having altered the line of the Waimata road through a portion of the township of North Gisborne. At the Company’s first sale of sections in that township this road was shown on the plan as connecting section 37 with the road near the margin of the river. This connection has been completely cut off, and sections 6,7, and 8, block F, have been sold without this road being shown. The questions naturally arise, was the first plan registered ? and if so, have not the owners of sections in the block a claim on the Company for a loss of privileges ? and if the plan was not registered, what security have the purchasers of the remainder of the town sections that any of the streets may not be closed, by the Company at any time. In this connection a similar case occurred in Auckland a few years ago. Sections were sold with frontages to a private street; houses were built; and after four years the original owner died and his executrix fenced in the street and made a cattle yard of it. The enraged proprietors had to go to the Supreme Court, and there compelled the executrix to execute a deed of dedication Of the. street line. It would be well that the owners of sections in North Gisborne should see that the plan under which the last sales were made is registered, or that a deed of dedication is drawn up at once.