DUMMYISM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3070, 19 March 1892, Page 2

DUMMYISM.

(T!V TELKiIUAI'K. —PHESS ASSOCIATION). ISvKRCAKGILL, Lll«t Night. A si>kciai, inn tins? of the Land Board ws held to-day t" consider a cms.; of allege dummyisin, r>.i> rt.ul by Ranger Camphel on the pMi-t mi •) 15. Baratain, tin; holder < a perpi'i.o;i! I". >*••, section of fourteen hut dreii rrs. aod who manages the adjomin ran f-liU f.itV-r. Mr C. Oowan, tl: member of Sim l.Mid who wai deputed' visit the ground ill company with tl raiv.'er, r-port«il that some surface gowiti and" teiiciiu had been done, but there w; no sign of a residence or other iniprov. merit. Tim occupier of the adjoining ski tion informed hitn that part of the lan was used as a receiving paddock wlie mustering the sheen belonging to til Duiuobiii Scntinn. The ranger valued th improvements at £70, and stated tlu under the Act Barstain should have, : least, two hundred acres cultivated besidi a rvidfiice erected. He recommended tl 11-ad to iMiicel the lease, characterising as a gluiing case of duiumyism. Tl licensee st >ted, cn oath, that he bought tl land for his own benefit, and valued tl improvements at £100. He did not resit on the land because he lived on the adjoii ing property, and was not aware of tl extent of the improvements required by tl Act. The Board went into Committee, andd cided to forfeit the lease on the ground i non-compliance with the residential and in provement conditions.