WESTLAND TENURES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2166, 3 June 1914, Page 10

WESTLAND TENURES

ROYAL COMMISSION SIIIIKG. (By Tcle E rai>]i.-PMK Association.) • _ . HoKitikJi Jw.,o 2. iiio Koyal Commission oh Timber M'nnig, and Lend Tonnw* (Jfeih. j , S m S,/ F VSS their '•* s The principal witnesses were aoam** tlio dual control of Wnrtfcn's Court and Land Board, preferring ttie Jattor. San-millers require a , beitoy tenure to enable them-to finance on timber areas held, and also larger timber reserves to warrant tlio eonstrußtion rf iron railways to the back country. l%e miners wish a right to the'"land in , n tfcr to combine nimnm with pastoral and agricultural pursuits. Setters dcMrt occupation with the riglit of mi.rdvase, or similar title, instead of temporary crswing licenses, to enable them to make improvements and a permanent ftonv? with resumption for mining purposes! carrying cmnpeiisation. It was. recofflmended that wnrked-oiit sniviniTl areas be burnt and grassed, and ffat m'mhw tailings bo levelled .whilst worid-mr, so that they may. eventually become frintgrowinjt land. Whoro possible, superior psstoral land should be rcam-ed' from the jurisdiction of the Warden's Court. The evidence, showed the possibilities of. "Westlnncl as p, sold-produciug emitro for conioanies working on a large scale, deprecating attempts'to create, a IiOoTO, which in the past has <lono hann to the industry. The. Commission sits at Boss to-morrow, and at, Kumsra m Tkttrsday.