GOAL AND A LEASE.
further Statement 'by the- :, PRIME MINISTER, t.;.
■The allegation that tho Government hao! ! nartccl with a' ooal-Txiaring area of lease. , In-pcrpetuity land iri' Southland, at i a price equivalent to'tho surface value onljy.. continues to asitato- certain newspapersalthough the 'Brimo.'Minister'. Btatcd on Friday last that leases';of the;class, to,, which'that in Southland belongs, are in ■ express terms,leases.of the surface, "W?i only, and carry a' covenant to that effect,.; Yesterday' Mr. Masscy nindo a further' brief statement on the subject. .' "Tho Crown Law Office," lib said, "has not yet givon'an opinion on the matter because it lias 1 to get the whole of the" details of the transaction from Southland, . That naturally occupies a few days', but; for the information of' those who: ar» ; interested I may say, as Minister,: for. Lands, that the titlo has net ken issued; and that the purchase of the fee-simple does not carry with,it tho right.to'mine: a mineral-bearing country. Tho.fee-«impl«' of the land in this case, land in '•.many; others, does not carry: with it the.right.' to the, minerals beneath tho surface." ; ~
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 6
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180GOAL AND A LEASE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 6
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