GREYTOWN AND MASTERTON TOWN LANDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 283, 7 October 1879, Page 2

GREYTOWN AND MASTERTON TOWN LANDS.

[To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily. Sir, It is gratifying to find at so early a date a copy of a proposed Amendment Act for the management of the trust lands of both townships, and I believe the suggestions of the Trustees are clear and will give satisfaction, I feel disappointed, however, that no reference has been made to the future management of sections 42, 109, 111, and rural section 29 in the Masterton district.

In my former letter I stated that all the town acres in Masterton were vested in Mr C. R. Garter, under the Grown Grant of 1858, all, however, have been dealt with except 42, and in consequence of the Masterton Trustees not availing themselves of the amended Act in f876, Mr Carter is still the owner of that section, There is no man I know of who has worked so zealously for the Sm ill Farm Association as Mr C irter, nor is he a man who would court unjustly a foot of land belonging to either township, Since Mr J, V, Smith resigned the treasurerslnp of the trust, no rent, I understand, has been paid for the section, and no action can be taken until it is restored to the Trust, for the benefit of Masterton, to which course Mr Carter, no doubt, will offer no objection,

I append a clause bearing on the point, as well as to sections 106, "ill, and rural section 29.

I am, etc., Old Settler, Additions to the preamble of the Act. And whereas certain lands mentioned in the schedule of said Act, being town acres numbered one hundred and six, and one hundred and eleven and rural section twenty nine, in the township of Masterton, the owners of which have been absent

from New Zealand twenty years without hiviug left any known agent or agents. And whereas doubts exist that the Masterton Trustees may take possession of and manage said lands with the same powers and in the same manner as other lands provided for and included ,in the same schedule of thesiid Act. And whereas, further, certain lands intended lobe included in the second schedule to the said Act were accidentally omitted. Section 3.-With respect to the lands and hereditaments mentioned in the second schedule hereto, all the estate and

intfcrest therein at present vested in Charles Booking Carter shall, on the passing hereof, vest without conveyance'ln ' A. \V. Renall and all of Mastertoaas I joint tenants in fee-simple, and as trustees 1 of said lands and hereditaments under the fl provisions of the Masterton and Greytown B Lands Management Act, 1871. fi| Section 17.—-The Masterton Trustees 08 shall enter and take possession of sections Bt 106, 111 and rural section 29, in the tovn JBB and township of Masterton, and such lands, with the same such manner as is provided Act for the management the second schedule owners, or the devisees, .fflßHMpy the case may be, shall, ,estJSa« iheir right and title to the satisfaction of the judge sitting .in the judicial district in which such lands are situate.