LAND COMMISSION.
Per- Press Association. Auckland, last night. The fallowing evidence was taken by the Land Commission at Maungatoroto on Friday: Mr K. C. Smith, settler, and a member of the County Council, advocated that all Crown lands should be thrown open under the optional tenure. He believed in the freehold tenure, and thought that the Beckerstaffe estate was going off so slowly because it was offered only under lease in perpetuity.
Charleß E. Fisher, Crown tenant on the Beckerstaffe estate, stated that be would like the right to acquire the freehold at the original valuation. He thought the reason why the whole of the Beckerstaffe estate had not been taken up was mainly because the land was notjoffered under the optional system, 7 Similar evidenoe was given by eight other Crown tenants on the Beckerstaffe estate.
William Bailey, seeretaty of the Maungatoroto butter faotory, said that owing to the sale of froehold land in the district prior to the opening of the Beokerstaffe estate, the demand for land had been to a great extent satisfied, and that accounted for the Beckerstaffe sections not being taken up. The Commission sits at Kawakawa on Monday.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1448, 8 May 1905, Page 2
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194LAND COMMISSION. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1448, 8 May 1905, Page 2
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