LICENSING COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 789, 9 June 1881, Page 2

LICENSING COURT.

Upper WAiiuiupi,

Present—H. S ( . WavdeU, Esq., R.M., and Commissioiiers.lC" Ai Vallance and ; .Joseph Beittettj;., Vj a ;. :2 r ir/ -,;.

OABf EBTWiBiH JUNE,

.The applloatldns of the following licenses were-grantedH. Giles, Royal Oak 1 Hotel; Carterton ;^!F.<!Urtrin t Marquis 6fR. H. Elliotte,,White,Hart Hotel, Carterton J^T. 1 Rayi; Tkiatafil i O.' . (transfer)!; HotelV a 'James 6ektanV'"Hm^m6raiigi-

• JIASTERTON TOWN LANDS. [To the Edikr of the Waibabapa Daily.] < Sib,—l have read your leader in refer-. slice t6 these Town Lands. I wish you had . informed your readers by whom Messrs Carter, Jackson, Masters, .Renal), and Allen were first elected, whether by themselves or by the people* and if by 'th"B"latfSS i ;"I suppose-they-to their actions.being fair)y^riticised. ; They appear to'have bought - land from ' sold it at j!ss,. No ; statement of account, 'I submitted (to ihe public, but'it ia not unreaionableto auppoae that. the. difference in pnce ( ;haSjbeen expended onsurveys,' &c;'j ; V' h|:; I find they have issued for the guidance of purchasers, several .and in one of .these? it;is stipulated, tjiat all 'unsold lands. "sliall. be" sold,l;a|ter twelve months, by public auction/and the proceeds handed pver for, the befiiefit of .the towns. v r believe one'of'these-unsold. acres js the brie in dispute (42).1f it had .been sold, as it should liave been at first, we should not no# have

Why does Renall 'try to 'oppose a jusj; claim, on the part of . the totfn, or the Trustees to come to Mr Carter cap in hand to ask him,to cohcede. ; .what he has already agreed tol , Again, it appears -to ine above gentlemen were.recouped,.their first outlay for the. purchase of.:the.:land, and agreed .to pass their interest—itihere is any document to show they ever had any —to a Trustee for public uses as small farms. lam.at a loss to understand how any one of them can now sit up p claim to any portion of the unsold acres, and upon what grounds they can do so under the deed of Trust, f

Mr Jackson,! believe, ignores the claim as preposterous, ! whiie'Mr Renall trya«to take; advantage I of, Mr ]oarter'» absence, as his agent, but cannot' produce any authority in support of his action, lent Mr Carter's position'as an honorable man would be compromised, and his intentions as expressed in his'{letter of 1870, nullified. ' ; ' ■' • The'; 23rd section of th'e'act' ( of 1871, directs that the Trustees may make regulations for the despatch ftf .business, at their meetings, for the determining who shall be chairman, and for fixing a quorum, and may from time to time alter, revoke, amend, or make anew any such regulations. . ' " '

By virtue of this power it would appear that the Trustee? have at their meeting after the election of now members taken steps to elect a Chairman for the ensuing year, but Mr Renall declined , to'ptii 1 the resolution to the meeting, adding that he ' cared nothing for the Act, and is about to call a public meeting to induce people who do not understand the case to support him in his unjust proceedings." It is to be hoped that the people will support the Trustees in their endeavors to procuro the acre for the town, and that the Trustees will have .a greater respect for their position than to attend 1 a meeting oonvened by a man who deliberately defies the law.

lam,&o,jH r j' ' 'A Citizen,

P.S.—lf the others had the sahie chance to feather their nest as Renall .had, I think they would not grumble' about their adventure in the Wajrarapa,