INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 141, 26 May 1892, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PER UNITED PBBBS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, This Day. I Mr Mackenzie's Land Bill is now comi plote and when introduced at an early stage in the session will be found to adhere closely to the lines of tbe measure of last session. An Act to amend the law relating to the sale of bread will be brought in by the Government next seßßion. Among other things it proposes to relax tho stringent law respecting tlie sale of fancy broad. The Payment of Monition* Dill of last session will be re-introduced at an early stage in tho coming Bossion. Among other bills to be introduced by tho Government next session will be one for the abolition of tbe grand and special juries system. At the Court of Reviewers in tbe case of Simeon, of Marama Cresent, the objector asked that a road through his land, which he had constructed, should be

treated as an improvement. Tbe Council said he was not claiming for the street,^ but for the actual money expended, in| order to make access to the land possible.! Mr Campbell, of tbe Land Tax Depart-! ment, said the Department bad another! such circumstance submitted to themJ and ruled, rightly or wrongly, that im-| provements to property on account ofj roads having been made by the owners should come under the \ct. He did not think it was the intention of the Act that indirect improvements on property should be considered as improvements. The roads in question could only be termed indirect inprovements, and could not, therefore, come within the four corners of the Act. The Board decided the Act did not warrant any reduction for this expenditure and disallowed the objection.