THE HAMILTON COMMONAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2648, 2 July 1889, Page 2

THE HAMILTON COMMONAGES.

TO THE KIMTOK. Sin,-—I bng to enter as strong a protest as possible, against the proposal to sell the fencing at pio.-eut enclosing the. commonages on each side of the river. Many pnojjle who have come from the Old Country have heard of the way large common-i-.'HS free t.i all have from time to time boon nobbled by tho landlords. \n a young country it speaks well for their public men that ample provision of this sort is made. The object in laying aside these lands tor free pasture for'the burgesses was conceived in the Conjoins farseemg and liberal spirit. Yury little use, it may be said, is undo of these enclosures, take away the fenciii", and we .shall then see, probably soon, an application that they be put up for lease The run for the poorer burgesses cattle is already becoming very restricted and will become more so year by year. With better times and consequent inllux of population, an outcry against allowing caitle to ro.im tho streets would ;soim be hoard again, and if these common.'gis r,re done away with, the only chance-for a poor man to keen a cow will be gone. The I>■ - iii-tin V.oanl nre nuturally anxious to -ee some interest, for their outlay, why not lease these commons for a few years with oi- without Hi.- proviso of their b-ing open to burgesses' eattU- at. a low rate v, be fixed by the conditions V—Yours, kc. lAcio.