LAND COMMISION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 2

LAND COMMISION.

Per Press Association.} m, t- . „ Dunedin, last night. Land . Commission held, a sitting at Middlomarcb, when evidence was taken Eric Hansen, owner of 100 acres of free, hold, wanted more land. Ho did not bebove m the freehold. Murray, Boborts and Co., who hold something like 10 000 acres on tho flat, sold some of it lately’ for £l4 au acre. A poor man had little chance of baying 100 acres of that W.D Mason owner of 115 acres, and loasee of 7, said thero was a great demand for land, and people were paying hoavv prices to tho high school governors, whi-h administered a groat deal of land He thought the land should be administered by the BaDd Board. The land should bo the property of tho State, and then a man«* ' ought only to hold laaS when he made ue C* of it. A perpetual lease without right, VP ' purchase, but with revaluating at certa periods, was, he thought, best for all. : John Hay, carpenter, said there whs 1® H demaud for land, and he thought some Of the large holdings should be out up V&n aggregation of estates was going on to some extent.

fifiohael.Moynehan, farmer, favored the freehold, ana wanted to convert his perpstual lease' into freehold. He denied there was such a 'tbing as unearned inore, ment, or that the price had advanced be- ' > ‘ yond what he. had put on the laud. - "•'! - The Commission sits at Dunedin t a . . ,A tnOKOWi fu