LAND SALES LAW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 46, 27 June 1947, Page 7

LAND SALES LAW

CHEAP BUILDING SITES EXEMPTION ASKED FOR The Minister of Lands, Mr Skinner, who recently was not in favour of a suggestion from Whakatane that sections sold at £2OO or less be exempt from the Land Sales Law, has also turned down a similar request from Rotorua.

A suggestion that transactions of less than £IOO in value should not go before Land Sales Committee was made by Mr H. G. Dickie, Rotorua, at the quarterly meeting of the Rehabilitation Council held in Wellington. Mr Dickie was commenting on the time taken for transactions to go through land sales committees, and he considered his suggestion if adopted would speed up building considerably where sections of lesser value were involved. Replying to Mr Dickie, the Minister of Lands and Rehabilitation Mr C. F. Skinner, said a similar suggestion had already been examined, but it had been considered that whatever figure was fixed would immediately become the minimum price for a building section.

The Minister contended that once the application was lodged undue delays did not occur in land sales transactions. More often than not an application was not presented to the registrar until about a month after it had been completed, and therein lay the real delay. The average time taken for a case by the Wellington Urban Land Sales Committee was three weeks. The rural committee sat three times a week and oftener if necessary.