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Early Wellington

Reserves

Reserves.

Many persons were squatting on the public lands, under the impression that they would be allowed to remain unmolested for several years. This was an error into which they would not have fallen had they examined the conditions upon which the lands about the town were presented by the New Zealand Company to the community. The most prominent condition was that these lands were at no time to be built upon.

A time would come when it would be most desirable to have large open spaces about the town, and if they were appropriated, a vested right might spring up which might be unsurmountable hereafter.

The “N.Z. Gazette,” and “Wellington Spectator” thus warned persons squatting on reserves and throwing their money away in building on what, they termed, would prove to them a bed of sand.