CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3612, 12 September 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Village Settlors.

(To the Editor.)

Sib,—l notice-by your ralu'sbla paper of August 12th, that the result of the La.id Nationalisation scheme of Mr Ballanoe has been that a large percentage. of his Village Settlers have abandoned thoir holdings; but why have they done so?., Now sir, I wilj give you a bit of.my: experience, In April, iBB7y Iloet up and 48i- 82 aoiW-Htstwell Village Homestead Special Settlement. By the first of Marob, 188P.1,- hadielled and burritali my busb'and sown it in' grass, aiT-but. five aeres, ind.l.was residingbnthe'lahd, ■Oh>-M<2itii March-1 got a letter from the Grown Lands Office deolaring my right and interest forfeited as I had -not .complied with the regulations in reapebt to occupation,andimprovements, and giving me fourteen days)'tq; 'oomply with the regulations. I' sent' word back that I had done all I could do, and sine? then, sir, I have had a lot of trouble to get the 'tooney* on my improvements. I have applied to >the Village 1 Steward and to ; .the Commismissiotier of Crown Lands,' and .also to the Land Bbard'ior the advance on my house, It is, an .ironj building, but they refuse to give''the advance beoauselhavean iron ohimney. I asked the'' Steward • how % came to advance the money to oth|j; settlers houses and iftn. cbimu'eys, and his answer was,tint the Goyerqmen,t:bad lost.a lof'jif by some of the settlers, I asked him if I was to Buffer for other people's mißdoiiigs, and his reply was ' certainly, But rhave not abandW, my boldibg arid fiave"rib intention- of jdoing'6p.. ; .Bu|it is np : fanlt •$# Sovp-toment that I have not done so long ago; JNb'w'plr, ajH last jeHfifdyV can you kindly informme hoFil;ani to, get my. own?, ~/,,, , : ,',.;.,■,.'..: '■'•;."•';'-; i'^immr'"- ' -•■•>•• '- ; '-Umititom, '