CAMBRIDGE AND HAMILTON TOWN ENDOWMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1928, 13 November 1884, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE AND HAMILTON TOWN ENDOWMENTS.

Mk Wjiyte, during the session of 1883, had inserted in the Land Act of that session clauses for the purpose of endowing boroughs and town districts with lands within their boundaries in a similar manner as by the plan of the Town 9 Act, 1875, since repealed. This provided for giving boroughs and town districts endowments to the extent of one-tenth of the total area. This bill passed through the House of Representatives, but was rejected in the Upper House. This session (1884), however, the Land | Act Amendment Act passed both Houses and contained clauses having the effect intended by the clauses in the bill of ISB3. The manner in which this will affect the borough of Hamilton and the town district of Cambridge is shown by the following memorandum, prepared by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, for the guidance of the Government in 1883 :— [Copy ov Telegram from Commissioner oh' Crown Lands Auckland.] To tho Undor-Secretary of Crown Lands Wellington. j Auckland, 17. 8. 3883. The Borough of Hamilton contains olcven hundred and eighty acics and the land aheady reserved and Crown granted to that borough as a Municipal Endowment amounts to si\ty-four acies one rood nine peichesor nearly six per cent of its total aiea. Cambridge Town District contains eight bundled and seventy acres and the total aiea onginally reserved therein for municipal purposes amounted to fiftythiee acres two roods and twenty-five perches ; subsequently foity-one acres two toods of the above acreage weie constituted a lecieation leserve ; consequently the reservation actually made to the present time is only in the proportion of one .vnd a-half per cent, of the town area. A fuither area, however, of seventy-five acres, eighteen pci dies, is, as your aie by this time aware, shown in the schedule furnished to you of sections available for reservation for this town to piovide an endowment to the extent allowed by the Town Act, 187."). If this aiea is added to the twelve acre-, twenty-five pciches aheady vested in the town boatd, it will give a total area of eighty-seven acies, one lood, tlnee peiches, or equal to ten per cent, of the total town area. (Signed) D. A. Toi.e, Commissioner Crown Lands.