THE TUAPEKA HUNDRED.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 388, 5 September 1874, Page 2

THE TUAPEKA HUNDRED.

comprised within the proposed hundred should be opened for settlement under, the agricultural leasing system, and other regulations now in operation for disposing of Crown lands within goldfields, this system having proved in the pist, and is at present proving, in every way suitable to the circumstances and requirements of the district r first,' by, preventing hasty ab'enation of its anriferous lands ; second, by promoting the settlement of its non-auriferous lands by a mo^fedesirable class of colonists; and third, by'gtutfding.the public estate from passing into the possession of speculators and monopolists ;' '2. That a memorial, embodying tbe resolutions passed at this meeting, be immediately forwarded to his Honor fchc Superintendent, urgently requesting that he - will take the necessary measures to withdraw the lands so proposed to be opened under the hundred regulations, and to speedily cause the same to be opened under the regulations now in force within ' goldfields, and that all lan Is in future opened for settlement in this district may be brought under the same regulations.' " Trusting your Honor and Executive Council wilf give the subject of this communication your most serious consideration, and see your way to carry into effect the second resolution, — I have, &c, " M. Hay, Mayor, Chairman " (On behalf of public meeting.)"