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PARLIAMENT

LAND LAWS AMENDMENT BILL. ■ The House of Representatives met at 7.80 p.m. yesterday. Tho Land Laws Amendment Bill was introduced by Governor-General's Message, and read a first time. The Tit. Hon. W. F. MASSEY (Minister of Lands) said that so far as he could tell there was nothing controversial in the Bill. It was a purely departmental measure. The most important clause in it was that to deal with a difficulty that had cropped up in tho Taronaki district. According to a very old law, one-quarter of the proceeds from the sale of Crown lands goes to the New Plymouth Harbour Board. Lately the Government had been buying some very valuable land in the Taranaki district, and .according to legal interpretation of the present buv. o'lc-nuartpr nf tho revenue from these lands, whether rental or capital, realised by sale, went to the Now Plymouth Harbour Board. This was certainly never intendc-d by the framers of the Act. Mr. Wilkinson: Tho board does not want it. Mr. Massey: Tho board is so fully impressed with tho .injustice of the position that I am sure it will never claim it. It has never claimed it up till tho present. Tho House proceeded to discusstho re- v port of tho Cost of Living Committee.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 6

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PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 6

PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 6

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