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the desirability, indeed the_ imperative necessity, of appointing a Land Bailiff,

whose duties should consist

in the care and charge of Crown Lands in the Rural Districts, the registration of Equatters, and the abatement of trespassing.

"The question of -

hav lately

caused

this Government a very

squatting

great deal

of

embarrassment.

"The Colony is developing

at

such

>

such a rate that lands which,

A

were

few years ago, considered as most unlikely

to be required for building and sanitary purposes,

Now

are

being rapidly utilized;

and the

consequence is that

Squatters, who had long

remained undisturbed, have

had to be removed.

3.

This

from

the

peculiar habits of the Chinese, is always attended

with much difficulty

and

of to

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