LAND MONOPOLY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 24, 27 April 1870, Page 5

LAND MONOPOLY.

To the Editor of the Cromwell Argos. Sir, —“ Citizen” in your last issue deserves thanks for calling attention to the land monopoly that surrounds Cromwell, Allow me to throw out a suggestion : let the right to a large portion of the run be cancelled, and the squatter remunerated ; let the land so alienated be leased und sr the gold-fields regulations’, and stock run under the depasturing regulations, as at the Wakatip. The land will probably not be taken up for cultivation of crops, but some portions of it are available for laying down grass paddocks and dairy purposes. Compensation should not stand in the way, as the Province will gain the advantages—lst, by rental; 2nd, depasturing fees ; 3rd, increased and fixed population ; and 4th, the purchase money ultimately. Dairyfarur.ng and chcoso-making ought to pay here. While upou the subject, can you tell the public when the agricultural blocks up the Molynenx, and at Lake Wanaka, are to be opened, or whether they are to be sold or leased under the gold-fields regulations ?—I am, &c., Another Citizen. Cromwell, April, 22.

POSTAL REQUIREMENTS. To the Editor of the Cromwell Argos. Sir. —I see by the last issue of tho I Vakatip Mail that tenders are called for tho erection of a Post and Telegraph office at Queenstown. Surely it is time that somethin; was done to

procure suitable quarters for tho same purpose bore, for tho presoat building is quite inadequate to tho wants of tho district. I would surest that a memorial should bo signed, asking for the erection of a building suite I to our requirements, and forward.! I through his Honor the Superintendent to tho Fostmaster-G-aaoral. It would be desirable at the same time to ask that Cromwell bo made tho terminus of the Dunedin mail instead of Clyde. By this means our lotterD would arrive much sooner, and wo would bo enabled to answer them by tho return mail. —-I am, &0., Necessity.