Volunteer Land Scrip.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2907, 10 June 1878, Page 2

Volunteer Land Scrip.

The adjourned meeting of persons interested in the above was held, at the Governor Bowen Hotel on Saturday evening, Mr W McCullough being in the chair. The hon. secretary, Mr Farrell, read the following petition, which had been prepared by the Committee appointed to draw it up :—

to the honobablb the spbabbb and Members of the House of Kepbesentatives, New Zealand, in Parliament Assembled.

The Petition of the undersigned members of the Volunteer Corps, written against their . names, . Respectfully Shewbth— '-■''

That when your petitioners were enrolled as Volunteers " The Volunteers Land Act, 1865," —whereby it was provided that after a service of fire years as an efficient Volunteer a certificate was issuable, granting in each case a remission, of (£3O) thirty pounds in the purchase of Crown Lands—was in operation throughout the Colony. That by " The Waste Lands Administration Act;, 1876," the first-named Act has been repealed, and consequently your petitioners hare been deprived of the bonus or gratuity, which, to some extent, induced your petitioners to enroll themselves in. the Volunteer Force.

That, notwithstanding the enactment of 1876, your petitioners hare continued faithfully to serve the Colony in their respective ranks to the present date. Therefore you:* petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable House will devise and pass on their behalf such a measure as shall restore to them the privileges under which they were enrolled, or provide such ether remedy as, under the circumstances, may appear reasonable and equitable. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.

After some conversation the address was adopted, and after a resolution had been passed to the effect that the Committee see Mr W. Kowe, M.H.K., and request to back up the petition, the meeting adjourned.