MASTERTON TOWN LANDS.

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

MASTERTON TOWN LANDS.

(To the Editor Wairarapa Dailt.) Sir,—ln your leader of the. 6th inst., you deal with the subjeot of the Master- * ton Town Lands, and profess l to put your A readers in possession of the facts of the case. ™ You will allow me to say thatyou havebfcen singularly unhappy in your effort. I shall feel obliged if you will 'allow me space in your columns to'place the merits of the case before the public, Your first (ppy is contained iti' the second assertion you rnakp—Baiijply, Jfii Carter, thg Trustee lor the fivo. purchasers ; who boughtfrom the Crown, sold to the Asso» ciation. You will bear in inind that the Association -was composed of, Messrs Allen, Jackson, Carter, Mistersjand iyself, All the people who purchased from us the land which we had purchased from the Government were simply purchasers, and in no eense whatever'members of the Asspcjajjjpf). Ypu wjll w(int me to explain the word " association 1 ' to you. Only ono member of the Association to Masterton,'and none to Gr'eytown! so that the hypothesis of selling the land by the Association fylls to the grouiid. The lupd was settled by those persons who }]ad purchased %ni the Aa'aooiatioii.. Out of all the purchasers of land jn Mft s toftpni not a score settled there—absente'e' puft chasers selling tljeir 6eetions, ; You say the Trust was appointed to tako charge of surplus aores for the benefit of the town, There were 1 -no surplus acres for the benefit of this town, as they were the property, of the .Association, Had you been acquainted' with the subject, you would have known that what you are pleased to call surplus acres were mostly sections; given by the late Dr Featherston to the Association to recoup them for their expenses of purchase, surveys, aud other outlayb. No.42isoneofthe sections thus bestowed'. for.tjiis purposo, Out of the twenty tlje gave nineteen to the town. . ° I fail to understand what moral claim any person or body corporate, can havo to the property of other-persons. - Sir Garter holds that section in trust fori the Associar tion, and has no power to alienate it for any purpose whatever, without the consent.of the other members of the Association stilj living, and the heirs of " those who are dead. Wither the action tjjfl Trustees are taking is likely to obtatn consent for the purpose of further endowing the town with section 42 the town^ ; people will doubtless carefully consider." What Mr Carter will think of this attempt to divest public property for which he can aud will m held responsibly tythe.tyw of the laqd, ] not W Then you say I! the legal'title undoubtedly is vested in Mr Carter, and on this point Mr Renall has' the whip hand of bis fellow-Trustflees." :You,''.'confound Trusteeship. Mr. Carter is the Trustee of the Association; myself and . fgllowTrusteesare the trustjesof fye Maatwi ton Town { Lands, fir Garter' and % other members' fho Associa: tion are owners of section 42, of which Mr CaHef is 'only their—and Hij bmi—trustee. .In calling a public meeting, I only do so for $e purpjso of explaining to the Masterton people the hisfoiy of Trust Lands. If 1 my fpllowtTrußteeii/ attend, well and good—gone §tan(l ta : greater need of the Jnformatibn; '•'}?' / —' I have nothing to say m to tlie pro: priety; of .the remainder of; your .leader, . My onlyjmarvelis how- a gentleman of your standing pioosst m could have ' written it, ; :■ I have written to the Goyernnient'on t)j| subject, and will'shortly'place thfl'ioiws. ■ pondencoMorathepublic,,, . lamV&c.', . A. W,Rehali, Masterton, June Bth, ...

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