Te Aroha Township Rentals.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 2

Te Aroha Township Rentals.

Ok Tuesday lusfc a deputation waitel upon the Wnrdeu and presented ft petition, of which the Following is a copy :—: — To Hi- Woißhip, 11. W. NounifßOFT, Ksq., Warden. "We, tho undersigned, occupiers of sections of l.nxl and buildings, in that pint of To Arohn, known a* Morgan Town, desire publicly tn biinif under ynur notice u mutter which has already received -oint) attention from you, namely, tin 1 conditions under which these sections arc held. Each of the flections we represent is ohaigoilde with a. yearly business lental of live pounds ; nnd, :.s no business is now beinjr cirri ed on on nnv of the (sections, or c< nb'inpl.ited, we, in the first place, hnml'ly elicit your influence as Wai den of the Guldfield, to cause tho ch..ri^e on e>ich of tho«e sections to ho reduced to tho re^ideiiti d ( h.n£>-e of one pound per .innuni. With this end in view, Mr G. Lipsey Ims nssuied us h" Ivis done liis utmost to have t!u i dp-ir»il jilt( j r.itiont brought about. We ai\' iufoimcd th«t 01,14 lit out of the nine. owners biirnntnivs have been r.btainod to secmu the object of your petitioners. We, therefore, in the f-econd phice, respectfully lequest th-it 3 mi will do all you can to obt.u'n tho "\ r t itten consent of the Native owner to the altciation, who it is s.iid leside-. .it Taunuiif-i, and whose sitrnaturc has not yet befn receivci], and thus biini; to a definite understanding a most vexatious question ; one which stultifies the le^itmate expectations of settlers in tho to»\n,.irnl retnidstho general progress, of tho disliicts. And your petitioners will ever pray, dr., Signed. — lulwnid Gallnsjlicr, J. M, Bell, A. PnwiiO', ?nd seveial otlu r«. The Warden irtive the petitioners to under? tan I tho ninttor rofciroil <o had nlieaily received lii"* attention, and stated n-ith iTspecfc to the iciiive ownci 1 who hail not yet signed, that he proniiccil some time sine« to d«> so, butlial more recently declined, stating «« a reason that a friend of his ut Te Arolui had urged him on no aoconnt to agree to the proposed arrnmjeinput, so that it was evident tho difficulty was nearer home than Tauranjra. He promised, liow«t«t, to sec what further could be done in the matter It transpired that Mr Lipsey had made concessions pnvnfcoly to two <r three pai ties in the township with respect to the rental of buck street allotments.