CHARGES DISPROVED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 5

CHARGES DISPROVED.

■■'■ "■ ■•» —— .'' • . ' "NO LAMD AGQREGAa'ION!" The report of tho Lands Committee on tli.e allegatious mads by ilio , Maiigaweka "Sdttleit" as to laii.d aggregation in that dist'rio'; wa.s p.rfegente.d to. tiny House of Representatives y.esterday, . The ■committee reported—(l; That the allegation that, .aggregation ■ lias been ranmaiit in the Mangaweka district was , ■refuted by tlio evidence., and that there had be<?n no aggregation eScopt in a fow ca.ses wliicU took -plafie in years past tindfir the tliea existing land; tews, n'iid with tlio .sanction of the Wellington Land Board, (2) That the assertfen "thflt land Bgijnte we.ro .goiftg rouiid with their pickets KneiJ with golcl to tompt tho small settlers to seirout tp the larger laiid owners" was coropletflljf disproved by tho otidenoo: ($) THiat the Statement "that aggrA- , feation; was encoiiraged by the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, and to a large extent friis dno to the provisions of tliat Act" is, interrect. The oommitteo- ftddedthatthoeyidenoti ctearly showed , that qfiginally nvuch of the land, had been, cut into sections of too■'■β-jnnll an urea, aiid that- the La-ntf Boa:r-d had apted in the best intorests of settlement by allowing the sreiae ti> be inci'Cflsed so as to allow the settlers ti-= occupy an area -of sufficient size which to make a liyiiig.