LAND ACT FEAR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 235, 1 July 1944, Page 6

LAND ACT FEAR

R.S.A. Aim To Encourage Likely Vendors After a long and keen debate the R.S.A. Dominion conference yesterday endorsed a recommendation concerning the Land Sales Act. Those favouring it said that if made effective the prosopal would remove the fear many people had of offering their land to soldier settlers. Those opposing the recommendation said its effect, if made law, would be to undermine the principles of the Act. The recommendation was:— “That section 51 (C) of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 19-13, be amended to provide (a) .that a vendor of a single unit farm (being the

After a long and keen debate the R.S.A. Dominion conference yesterday endorsed a recommendation concerning the Land Sales Act. Those favouring it said that if made effective the prosopal would remove the fear many people had of offering their land to soldier settlers. Those opposing the recommendation said its effect, if made law, would be to undermine the principles of the Act. The recommendation was:—

“That section 51 (C) of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 19-13, be amended to provide (a) .that a vendor of a single unit farm (being the whole of his farm land) that has been recommended by a land sales committee for acquisition by the Grown, have the right to withdraw from the contract if the price fixed by the vendor is reduced by the land sales committee or by the Land Sales Court on appeal and the reduced price is not acceptable to the vendor; (b) that if the vendor of any land subject to the preceding section exercises the right of withdrawing from the contract then the land shall not again be offered for sale or be sold to any person other than the Crown or a discharged serviceman during the currency of the Act.”