LAND COMMISSION
I ’(Pen Press Association:.) I ’ I Invercargill, last night. I The Land Commission sat' at Gore toI day, when four witnesses declared in favor I of freehold, and three for leasehold, one of I the latter on the grounds that the land he knew in the district doubled in value in 18 years. A Government Valuer said that allowing loans to three-fifths the value of improvements would be’ dangerous, as some leaseholders had peculiar ideas of what constituted improvements. Another witness complained that he could not divide a Crown leasehold among his children as he thought right. Yet another said that payment of rent to Government for life meant that they were giving money to Government to send home to the money lender. A merchant witness Baid that the cause of the abnormal growth of weeds in the district "was ttiat people purchased rubbish from seed-cleaning maohines at a shilling per bag.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1397, 7 March 1905, Page 2
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154LAND COMMISSION Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1397, 7 March 1905, Page 2
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