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What actually is the reason certain areas are "prohibited"
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<blockquote data-quote="casper" data-source="post: 668723" data-attributes="member: 562"><p>I've posted on this perennial topic on a number of times previously, and the reason for the exemption is not what you think it is, and you have to go back to the original legislation circa 1870's to understand its <strong>original intention</strong> and recognise how it's since been skewed in our times for another purpose. </p><p></p><p><u>As I understand it,</u> in the Colony of Victoria the original provisions of the "Miners Right" allowed the holder to peg a "Miners Right claim", and to <strong>occupy </strong>that claim, meaning that he could erect a tent or throw up a humpy and live and work on his claim. This lead over time to a haphazard string of shanty type settlements springing up alongside watercourses. The colonial government seeking to encourage permanent settlement set about to survey and gazette townships and followed up with enabling legislation "exempting" certain rivers and streams from <strong>occupation</strong> under the provisions of the Miners Right, and this was to enforce centralised settlement. You will see on many old town and parish maps in Victoria on land within the town boundary that is adjacent to watercourses for so many yards, chains, or links on either side, is designated as "reserved for Public Purposes". Fast forward 160 years or so and the original legislation with amendments has thru time become a useful instrument for the control of water quality , land management, fisheries, and forest management purposes etc. For example early 20th century amendments were directed to Sludge Control. Sludge from alluvial (placer) workings and hard-rock mining flowed into rivers across the colony causing significant damage and disruption to downstream communities. The anti-sludge legislation held the mining industry responsible for its own pollution and required gold miners to return clean water to river systems.</p><p></p><p>casper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="casper, post: 668723, member: 562"] I've posted on this perennial topic on a number of times previously, and the reason for the exemption is not what you think it is, and you have to go back to the original legislation circa 1870's to understand its [B]original intention[/B] and recognise how it's since been skewed in our times for another purpose. [U]As I understand it,[/U] in the Colony of Victoria the original provisions of the "Miners Right" allowed the holder to peg a "Miners Right claim", and to [B]occupy [/B]that claim, meaning that he could erect a tent or throw up a humpy and live and work on his claim. This lead over time to a haphazard string of shanty type settlements springing up alongside watercourses. The colonial government seeking to encourage permanent settlement set about to survey and gazette townships and followed up with enabling legislation "exempting" certain rivers and streams from [B]occupation[/B] under the provisions of the Miners Right, and this was to enforce centralised settlement. You will see on many old town and parish maps in Victoria on land within the town boundary that is adjacent to watercourses for so many yards, chains, or links on either side, is designated as "reserved for Public Purposes". Fast forward 160 years or so and the original legislation with amendments has thru time become a useful instrument for the control of water quality , land management, fisheries, and forest management purposes etc. For example early 20th century amendments were directed to Sludge Control. Sludge from alluvial (placer) workings and hard-rock mining flowed into rivers across the colony causing significant damage and disruption to downstream communities. The anti-sludge legislation held the mining industry responsible for its own pollution and required gold miners to return clean water to river systems. casper [/QUOTE]
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