MR W. ROWE, M.H.R., ON THE AUCKLAND WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 841, 6 November 1877, Page 2

MR W. ROWE, M.H.R., ON THE AUCKLAND WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Speaking on the Lands Bill, Mr Rowe is reported by ' Hansard ' to have said : — Ib has been my fortune to come into contact with the Auckland Waste Lands Board on one or two occasions. Their proceedings have no doubt been watched very closely. There is somehow a very great tendency m Government nominees to become autocrats. They have no sympathy with, the people, and they do not study the wants of the people. In the district from which I come, applications have been made for years. Although the purchases were not complete, and are not yet completed, still the people were anxious to settle on their land 3 and formed themselves into associa* fcions for that purpose, subscribed money for it, and applied to the v ' Government with regard to it. The present Colonial Secretary and thti ate Native Minister promise^ thji

the hnd° ahouid ' be "sold" for that piivpo9e> Theie people wetit to lite Government andrsaid, " We hJbro got m^"->t^ ft^«B[WjVSßW r ft leave the . sell the land on yoaftA&fi^tifcKfi 1 * We wish to settle-on the land, aud are prepared -W : ihMit%W4Jhyj!&ir terms you may require.L > 5 1 «i^nd > ,tljip promise was given,' aM^eatis*tilli'be j, seen, asitis iri .wyltiftg^ . people car^e oufc ftpm., jSng^fttiu^ pq ] then the matter was sto.^pHed, i '. lH |b has 'been reraapkedt^here- ;to-nighfc,i but I ido ttbfr ctt -Iftti*'Bj%i#ithiae i withi the' remark ,^® c ! from, Eo^a^r^i^^f/iJ^Mri!/^! vantages given to them over.,thQse. who at»e brodght !«ji m ttie cblonyJ I happen to haye a nmnb'er bf sons; who foi^a longJti^\ave fl| beer savi ing their money'in omer to puyjapd and settle on -it.- Why should not they have as^ good> ato p^^oi'turiity given to themTbf getting land iri their pv^n / (a^tf!^ fls i^jiven fed people cM^^^ What doiheiV^sC^j^^aas Boardfi do ? Before these .p.epple._caaie.oub from England they positively sai^tb ' those whoywera |{rpix(is6a laiid yjars ago, who were 1 prepared to buy it and to ; cultivate :it,'{ *& Yfai sfce/nbt bound by any promise made by. Ministers iin'days igo'tfeVßy."' These; oM^» the very words used to me iftri I allied \6 ''tne 'Waste 'liatidß Boat^ But, wWn^a man'cam'efrom,; England and applied on. in\jch worsej terms than we offecedjj he got a, hundred thousand ( aqrest u ,[4n Hon Member.— They wece^-tempetiance people;] 'Mir Rbwff^Yes, aftd so;, are the>eb^e..aj;-t^ < ;Tl4^ ) 'and as good; .as ," ftnf Jfe^fe; iY#.i ?W- J e < introduced^ by iMciJSmijmhall., , ; The people would not have; objected to his getting; ihe ! ; l4^ '# *^ ftlt thit th'e' fir S i ; '(Su^oH|^Bte Lands Boarcl .was 'to PPQWfIe for the their wantsuw,eie.i pfftYide^, fpry Mr Broomhali could a'Uo hav.e bjßen,,provided f6r^ ; ',^7b 3o ndiJ'dbjec^to^Mr Broomh^ll 6t 6hfbtkffl' : sfiv66h. coming MM the 'distiribli >«til* ft l is «dght to say that 1 1^ c^tniB 1 as t « < mel'^Pspefculattir? : ' ; fc# '^Id 1 '; the' W**WMlm^dj} BoaVd, " '$&$ M lit f a^' iotism m the movement 1 : ' we'iiiie'nd to mike money outof ifc." -So that a -mere; spficulator g^ k ali y tnb^dva|Tta;ges possible from , a nominee Boara', which 11 woalcP WdE'ha^e^e'en^e case if they^ere^ereb'tetf.v/ They are! all, Auckland men n who ar f e t nomin4ted to that Board, atd they havej no sy nipathy w^at^r h ; thejepplej of the Thames, and do no J t j§3|t6 do, anything foi\them. i-.l hayejaeenitheworking af these iriominßeiißoards, and, unless stttie^mea^s aV^t&k : eii't6 ft make^t^em.n^^^reD^se^tiV^ I shall yote-, agwnß,^q#n9}»J?^ t ,9f . the Bill at ajl events/. "-Witfe the general principles of tne£' r ffieasßr'e : >«I < >can;caB ] />ut some i means, nnust be found for supplying'ithe wants^of the butdisM.ct9 v; The i pfioplepf f .£he City of AucklanU^few'nbM^fi^ the, out districts, jand^carie .nothing about them, and, unless a change is made, we shall only iJ have 'a *■ Repetition of the scenes that have already taken' place, ; and ol^^eopk jeavjng the ; district, after saving the money they made; here^ because »they could not get land , on which y fco settle. And yet person &if W^le fiiW. England shpuldj.get these advantages over the people of the colony. Ij think this 'nominUied^Wast€fjLands Board system is centralism of'tHeworst 1 k4a; <( W"^eWe I 'hopfi' some provision will be made^ta., represent the needs of the ' oiitdistrictsbn th6§e !Bsttßdß, fornpbPdy^ can be satisfied^with^hftjyfeß^ntjStat^ of thinfrS.- *f;'v'-t ,s)-i ; i«jU e.ioatte} \ „^-j