Lockerbie and Waitoa Estates.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42761, 15 August 1905, Page 2

Lockerbie and Waitoa Estates.

AN EXPLANATION OF THE ACTS AFFECTING THEM.

The interest which exists at present about roads on the Lockerbie and Waitoa Estates has induced us to find out, what is the exact position of affairs. In 1900 an Act was passed compelling the owners of large estates to form roads through their properties so as to give the sections of their estates access to roads; and unless these roads were formed to the satisfaction of the Local Authorities would refuse to dedicate them, s.. preventing the owner of the large estate from giving a title to the subdivisions. Now from the passing of this Act until the year 1904, the Assets Board could not give titles to a number of the sections no their Lockerbio and Waitoa Estates unless these sections adjoined* a dedicated road and numbers of sections

were sold to which at that time no title could be given until the roads shown on toe plans were formed to tho satisfaction of the Local Authority. Now in 1904 an amendment was passed to the Act of 1900, which stated that where plans of estates showing roads through them had been deposited with the Lands Office prior to the passing of the Act 1900, the Registrar could issue titles to the

owners of sections on those estates so long as they "djoined the roads shown on the plan deposited with him. Plans of the Lockerbie and Waitoa Estates <ih->wing their raads. were deposited before 1900, bo tha f the Act of 1904 relieves the Assets Board of making roads.through these properties. The -iwners of sootions now have to look to the local authority to give them access to their sections and ought to do so, and we are sure that the request will be granted now that we have pointed out to them the legal position of this matter, m the same way as they did when the Manawaru and other estates were eut up.