CHEVIOT SETTLERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5024, 13 May 1895, Page 2

CHEVIOT SETTLERS.

By 'l'elcgrapL—Press Assonalion. CimiSTCHintCH, Saturday.^,', A meeting of 25 settlers was hoJB at Cheviot last night to consider tM s steps to be taken to obtain a reduce tion in the rent now paid, Tho chairman said they had just grounds for asking for a concession of rents, and the Government must recognise it, though they had not admitted it. It was impossible for settlers to carry on with the present price of produce, and it would be Lard! if, after spending their capital on improvements, they should be turned out to makoroom for others. A resolution was carried that a committee be formed to draw up a series of resolutions, including a proposal that the Government be asked to remit the next half-year's rent. Mr D. Brick spoke at length against any attempt to censure the Government or injure them in the. eyes of the country. He moved in effect that it was prematura toarrive at any decision until it was ascertained what the GoverameAt intended to do in regard to next year's rent, and to find out whether they would give part of tho £50,000 spent List year when the unemployed were foisted on them, or supplement it with £60,000 more to finish roads, The amendment wasput and lost and the original motion carried without dissent.