BUSH MONOPOLY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 610, 18 April 1876, Page 3

BUSH MONOPOLY.

•JSnt. — I hare seeninyouriameof April lltha letter headed Bash lUsemi, from K&tepayer. There / ctnbs no doubt, that almost the wholeof the settlors in Waikato will echo lUtepayer's request. I hope, iir, that you will take the matter up, *nd prerent the bushes in question, or any other bushes belonging to the Gorvrnment, from being ■old to private parties, who nearly always shut them up, and Kill neither use nor aell the wood. To sell these busies is a gross injustice to the settlers in the riemitj, and for the small amount they generally bring, it it not worth while selling them. There wu a simitar case some years ago. . The Gorernmeat adrertised for sale, a bush, F from which tb* people of Te Awauutu, drew their posts, rals, firewood, 4c. Unfortnnatey in many districts it is too late to secure fcr»st comtnoaage. The ibiiahea are all sold, anjdUhe settlers round them, will hare Vo buy- coal. Surely a wise Gorernment would letta the-Wnkato-buihei, for general and publie urn, pU%»d are in clumpi />ll orer

within eaiy retch oferery satrt*-. If it no 4 ; fair to do otherwise. A great deU l * said by those i* power, about promoting «c - tlcntnt, «md imall holding!, but thii u not the vr*r to do it. Immigrant! are being brought, out at our expenM, for w« are the public ; but little consideration it chown to tiioie who har < fought for their land, and are now ©adeayouriag to becomi prosperous itttlert. I will conclude by addinj my humble request to that of Ratepayer, that you take our came up, and show yourself m jou have done hitherto, to be the disnterested adracate of free aettlsment.—l am, &c, WonKixa Settlbr. Waikato, April 17th, 1876. £Our correipondent will •eetbmt the courte we had inggeated has been taken and that a pvb'io protest will be made by the distriot— Ed W T.]