LAND COMMISSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1484, 19 June 1905, Page 2

LAND COMMISSION.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. Tho Land Commission sat morning. P. Heyes, superintendent oi thi Advances to Setllers Department, state! that the Department did not consider occuI pation with the right of purchase was t j better tenure than lease in perpetuity? Ii time of adversity a man who had the free hold would be worse off than a man vjitt lease values. .The Department were Itol' that it would make do difference betgjweei the two tenures. He could not private institutions thought. Later.—When tbo BaTfJOimiinis on nit this morniDg P. Heyes, superintend -lent Advanoos to Settlers, corrected a r . -erp I he made,yesterday to the effect that £n. goodwill in the case of an O.R.P. least I might be considered more valuable than I L.I.P. Since thinking over the matter hi had come to the oonclUßion that therrfwae I do difference between tho two securities; in fact if anything, in timeß of depression L.I.P. would be a more valuable security I than O.R.P. This was, ho said, the view I the Advances to Settlers Board had I always taken of tbe position. I Tho Commissioner remarked that if this I was generally known it would relieve a I great deal of mieapprehension. Alfred Richard Lyons, inspector )of I properties for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company and Land Association, speaking of bringing bask to the former state of productiveness pastoral runs of the colony, said different parts Uf the country would require different treatment. Speaking generally it would have to be done by understocking and subdivision, not subdivision into smaller areas, proper subdivision by fencing. Settlers should not be allowed to excoed a stipulated carrying capacity. Limitation of stocking would do more Co improve runs than anything else. He did not know of one rum that bad as much lambing country as ii should bave. The spread of Californian thistle was a very serious thing. Something should be done to prevent noxious seed being disposed of for sowing. T. Humphries, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury, and James McE.enzie,' Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, were examined by the Commission as to statements already made by them before , tbe Commission in Christchurch aud f Auckland respectively.