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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2323, 3 December 1914, Page 6

Tlis very pertinent question produced the following evasivo answer: "TJie Government dealt -with tho question of undue aggregation of freehold lands ill tho Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907, when it provided tliat no-Crown land thereafter sold should bo lield in areas exceeding 50,000 acres, calculated in the; same, manner as Crown selections. This legislation is still in force, being Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908, and' each distriot laud registrar is given ■powers thereunder, to enable him t<) prevent undue .aggregation of such lf.nds. More than "this cannot ho undertaken during the current session." Horo was a, practical admission that aggregation wa3 then occurring despite the legislation of the Ward Government but was thero any promise of "effective steps" to deal with it? No, nothing hut a. visionary indication that some-' tKing more might bo done after the "current session." The "current session" came to an-end, and so did the Ward regime, with vhe result' that the required reform was undertaken by Mr, Massey.—Auckland "Herald." ' The Town Hall at Lower Hutt was crowded to the-doors last evening for 'the. picture'benefit in aid of tho DistrictftHisli School prize fund. During the interval tho chairman of the School Committee (Mr. H. Baldwin) thanked the audience for tho support given, and intimated that the children had unani-mously-agreed, to allow the proceeds of 'tho entertainment to be handed over to .the Belgian: Children's Fund. . The statement was received with, applause, j