THE LAND QUESTION.
(To tht Editor of the Tuapeka Times.) Sib, — The 3,000 acres reported to i have been thrown open on Smith's run, are of no benefit at all to intending settlers, as more than the better half is proved auriferous, and intending settlers are obliged to go back into the head of the gullies, where they can't get a level piece of ground which they could work, and no- right to run cattle. This portion of Mr. Smith's run has been of very little benefit to him fojr-j some years back* a& a grjsatr portion of it has Jieea -occupied for mining pur- j
poses, and is too near the thicklysettled portions of the district to be of any good for sheep grazing. It seems to me that the G-overnment don't want the miners to settle. They apparently gave them a right to run a cow according to the miners' right, but where are they going to run them ? If this be the way the Government are going to throw the land open at this stage of the game, it is almost time for us to roll up our swags and look out for a more favored country for settling. — I am, &c, An Intending Settles.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume 1, Issue 43, 5 December 1868, Page 3
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208THE LAND QUESTION. Tuapeka Times, Volume 1, Issue 43, 5 December 1868, Page 3
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