PUBLIC MEETING.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 265, 19 May 1888, Page 2

PUBLIC MEETING.

Tin: re was a large and representative attendance at the public meeting held at Waiorongomai last evening for the purpose of protesting against the action of the Thames High School Board of Governors with re^pncf to prnpnqed mining operations on their Endowment at Waiorongonmi. Mr James Munro was voted to the Chair and the following resolutions were earned unanimously :— 1, That this meeting view wiih extreme regret the selfish action of the Governors of the Thames High School Endowment in seeking to debar the development of the mining industiy, by not allowing the present applicants for the Alameda Special Claim permission to carry on ruining operations within the High School Endowment under the same conditions as allowed by the Mining Act now in force with respect to Crown and Native lands : as the applicants were prepared to commence work at once and to expend the sum of £500 in sinking a shaft to prospect the main reef, 2. That tins meeting respectfully request the Warden of tin-, Goldfield to exercise his powers by permitting mining operations to be carried on upon the High School Endowment in accordance with the Mining Act now in force. 3. That this meeting being of opinion that the fact of the Governors of the Thames High School having sole control of the Endowment on the "Waiorongomai goldfield is detrimental to the advancement of the mining industry, and has tended to retard the prosperity of the district, respectfully urge upon the Government the necessity of re-entering j upon the Endowment lands referred to, and take the necessary steps to have same administered for the benefit of the district as a whole. 4. That this meeting 'is of opinion that a petition for presentation to GoI vernment should be prepared, and largely signed by those interested in this matter, requesting Government to re-enter on the High School Endowment at Waiorongomai, and administer same in the interests of the district as a whole. 5. That the Chairnan, Messrs If. Me Liver, J. Samson, D. E, Clerk, and G. Beeson be appointed to take the matter of the petition, etc. in hand. [A fuller report of the meeting willl appear in oiu* next issue,]