CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8] — Page 383

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It is questionable if Parth, which had been thus quaintly arranged for outward show; I have repeatedly, on view of one of these shops, anticipated a sale would amount to Hundreds of dollars, where cents only have been the receipt; Coolies, Servants, Boatmen and a few Landholders for one half the Chinese community. The other half Brokers, Pedlers, Contractors, Artisans, and the above depicted shopkeepers are tenantry to European Landholders, and it is from such a class large amount of the present high rents are expected to be received; there is another class I have omitted; that is the squatters, who pay a small annual rent to the Crown, add their mite toward the Police Rate, and while subjected thus, they are content; but when the Land is offered them at the fixed rentals, they leave the Colony to return no more; this simple circumstance is the most corroborative of any assertion that the upset rentals are fixed too high.

Inland Lot N.30, truly is it named; it is in a deep glen surrounded by high and lofty Hills; this Lot was bought by me in January of the present year; it is situated immediately at the back of Lots A2291 A. and 292 A., bounded on the North and East by Roads that are not yet formed. I applied to Government for the Lot to adjoin my present residence for the purpose of Auxiliary farming; to enable me to carry on profitably the occupations in which I am of necessity engaged to earn sufficient money to pay my Crown Rents; this Lot, when purchased by me was of the very worst description, nothing but rocks, swamps, and springs; my outlay has been very great, to render it what at best it ever will be, a back yard, for it certainly has no frontage to a thoroughfare; notwithstanding. But because this Lot happens to be on a parallel with the Land in Wellington Street classed at one Hundred Pounds per acre. Inland Lot N30 isolated with Mountains around it, disconnected with Wellington Street in any way.

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It is questionable if Parth, which had been thus quaintly arranged for outward show; I have repeatedly, on view of one of these shops, anticipated a sale would amount to Hundreds of dollars, where cents only have been the receipt; Coolies, Servants, Boatmen and a few Landholders for one half the Chinese community. The other half Brokers, Pedlers, Contractors, Artisans, and the above depicted shopkeepers are tenantry to European Landholders, and it is from such a class large amount of the present high rents are expected to be received; there is another class I have omitted; that is the squatters, who pay a small annual rent to the Crown, add their mite toward the Police Rate, and while subjected thus, they are content; but when the Land is offered them at the fixed rentals, they leave the Colony to return no more; this simple circumstance is the most corroborative of any assertion that the upset rentals are fixed too high. Inland Lot N.30, truly is it named; it is in a deep glen surrounded by high and lofty Hills; this Lot was bought by me in January of the present year; it is situated immediately at the back of Lots A2291 A. and 292 A., bounded on the North and East by Roads that are not yet formed. I applied to Government for the Lot to adjoin my present residence for the purpose of Auxiliary farming; to enable me to carry on profitably the occupations in which I am of necessity engaged to earn sufficient money to pay my Crown Rents; this Lot, when purchased by me was of the very worst description, nothing but rocks, swamps, and springs; my outlay has been very great, to render it what at best it ever will be, a back yard, for it certainly has no frontage to a thoroughfare; notwithstanding. But because this Lot happens to be on a parallel with the Land in Wellington Street classed at one Hundred Pounds per acre. Inland Lot N30 isolated with Mountains around it, disconnected with Wellington Street in any way. Page 377
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