LAND SHARKNIG.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 November 1872, Page 8

LAND SHARKNIG.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — Believing the columns, of your paper., are always open for the discussion of matters, affecting the public weal, I will, with your permission, lay before.your readers and the public, a most pernicious practice that is being carried on in this district under.our agricultural leasing system, arid a practice 'which, if not speedily arrested,, will prove the ruin of the province, as. it has tlone-in the Australian colonies — I mean applying, /or" land For agricultural purpcß3'oh- the. dummy' prin r ciple. .'A -few months, ago; one of our Biue-'Spttr "'.Brinces,' by r a well-laid scheme, a'iid- 'the' aid of one- or 'fcwb friends who'lenfct'heir names for, tUs illegitimate act, o,bfcatne,d . abput §si() .acres, of land. at Tuape.ka the agricultural , lease . system.^ whereas" the statutory amount giie.. ii|-^

dividual is allowed to take -up is but 200 J acres. Again ■in ,last week's TiMEs, appears a full half-dozen applications from another of the Blue Spur Royal Family, purporting to be in the ! naiiifes of John, James, and Joseph, and that by their solicitor to save them from appearing personally to say [whether their applications are bona Jide or not,, for about a thousand acres to be be converted into ' a amajl cattle | station. Seeing the similarity of purpose that exists in those applications, it is evident the various names attached thereto Have" been' used to defeat the ends of justice ; and I sincerely hope that our worthy Warden, on the day of hearing, will see the necessity of j bringing forward all these applicants to testify, to the validity of their applications. I would suggest to the settlers along the Tuapeka River to take concerted actjon in,this present case, otherwise the, Bys.tem will become, an • [ established one, and plant amongst us a class of mongrel squatters, which are, .and have been, che curse of the colonies. A pologizing for my trespass on your space, and hoping Mr. Editor you will use your pen in denouncing this scandalous system of land-job-bing — I remain, &c, Jacques.

Tuapeka, October 27.