HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 10 September 1892, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thursday September 8. The amendments made by the Legislative Council in the Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Act 1887 Amendment , Bill were Agreed to. ' The Wanganui Harbour Board Endow, ment Sale Bill was read the first time. The Land Bill was further, considered in committee. Clause 150, as to terms • of leases. Mr G. Hutchison moved that the yearly rental should be 5 per cent of the cash price instead of 4 per cent. The amendment was lost on the voices, and the clause was carried. Clause 152, dealing with terms of lease. Mr G. Hutchison moved an amendment, which he Baid was a last effort to incorporate in the Bill under the tenure of perpetual leasehold the system of freehold. On a division the amendment was negatived by 31 to 17* Special settlement associations. : Mr Buchanan moved as an amendment that the total amount of land set apart as special settlements in the Colony shall not exceed 100,000 acres in any one year, instead of 250,000,' acres. , r Amendment lest by 35 to 13. Clause 162, Governorin Council may fix terms and conditions of occupation. Mr G. Hutchison moved to strike out that part of the clause which had a retrospective effect. The amendment was lost by 25 to 17. Mr Houston proposed that village homestead allotments should be 100 acres instead of 50 acres. Carried on the- voices. Mr B. Thompson suggested that the admistration of this system should be placed under the control of the Waste' Land Board. The Minister said he would be very pleased to fall in with that suggestion. Friday, September 9. ••'. ; The Land Bill was' further considered in committee : — Clause 196* was amended so as to give license holders a right to use any timber ott their land necessary for building and fencing purposea.—rDr Newman wanted the North Island Trunk Bail way loan exempted from the operation of the Act. — The Minister of Lands said he could not accept the suggested amendment. — Mr G. Hutchison, moved to insert a new subsection, providing; that in every mortgage no power of sale shall arise or accrue until after the joxpiration of one month following, default.— Agreed. The Bill was reported with amendments which will be considered on Tuesday. „. .. - . The House rose at 1.20 a.iri. ■ >