LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO TAKE ESTATES. (PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAMS.) WELLINGTON, May 18. Replying to a deputation from Wairarapa urging the acquisition by the Government of two.large estates at Tinui totalling 27,000 acres, Mr Massey said that for the past 6even years the Government bad not taken any estates eompulsorily, the reason being that so many difficulties had been placed in the way that tho law was found to be almost unworkable. Whether Parliament would amend tho law he was not able to say at the moment. He had a certain power under tho Act of last year. He could not go into details, but was putting the Act of last year into motion in regard to certain properties in different parts of New Zealand. He was not prepared to state publicly what he was doing. It might not be necessary to make it public, but he was going to get land for settlement wherever available.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14971, 19 May 1914, Page 10
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157LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Press, Volume L, Issue 14971, 19 May 1914, Page 10
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