LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

RINGING THE CHANGES ON RENEWABLE LESSEE. Sir.—.l n>l >i few words on this iiialter, 1 iiln-iiys mider-tiiml » k-ahe could not lie bi-iikc-u until" the expiry, it a lease h;i« been iniide nut at. n set rate, and rent on valuation, and stood' good for 11 years, Aliuiild it .or should, it-not be broken? Now, this wlii,it our "Liberal" (J-ovorn-niciit hiis done. Our lease \vn< i'm , 21 years, with the right of renewal for 21 yrars, >o it should go on. Now our Lil>-I'l-iil 'CiDrcriiiiieiit hiivc broken the lease by dmibliiig our rent (I soy rent, but it does not mutter, rent or rules, it is to bo paid). Where wo paid thiTcpi-nco per ncre it is now just double, being sixpeiii'i,, and in othnr enses where wo paid .t'ii it is'-KiO to XTO. Wlim-e a lease has slckxl good for 1.1 years it uliould htand the 'rr-st of its time, or what good is it. if.you havo to puss :iu Act to break a lease? Now, sir, I havo lx-en a Liberal all my life until now. What sort »f Liberals have wo in power to vote for the crippling of poor strugglers like us? We have f4iken up the land, which is •verv rough, anil worked very hard to ■make' n home, and this is how the Liberals arc doing with us, and we are represented here by a Liberal, but Liberals of that kind are not much good to us. Some time, not long ago, when Mr. M:\ssey was speaking on tho freehold Sir Joseph Ward said he was going to make the renewable lease more secure. What a' sweetener! 1 consider it most mijust and unfair to us. Our County Council is in n little bit of a fog, having served us with two rate notices; one on the fair thing, nnd ono on tho Liberal three-card trick. There is to be a lawcase now before any one will pay. There was a large meeting held in Kaikoura. on January 27 to sco what can be doue.— I am, etc., A BROKEN LEASEHOLDER. Kaikoura, January 31.