DETERIORATED LANDS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4932, 29 January 1926, Page 1

DETERIORATED LANDS.

PROGRESS WITH PRELIMINARY WORK

Progress is being made with the preliminaries for bringing into operation the provisions of the Deteriorated Lands Act, 1925, according to the Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. McLeod), who was asked by a Dominion representative on Saturday morning last what the present position was. The regulations necessary in this connection, said Mr McLeod, had been prepared and were now being revised by the Crown Law Office. The proclamation defining the deteriorated areas in the Auckland, Taranaki, Gisborne and Wellington districts had also been prepared. He expected that ,ihe Order-in-Council with respect to the regulations, and the proclamation defining the areas mentioned would be gazetted shortly. The personnel of the various special revaluation committees to be appointed for the purpose of inquiring into applications for relief, was now under consideration by the Government, and Mr McLeod hoped to announce their appointments at an early date. After the gazetting of the proclamation defining the areas which were to be subject to the operations of the Act, the occupiers of deteriorated lands within such areas could forward to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for their district their applications for relief. These applications would, .of course, be made an the forms prescribed by the regulations, which would then be obtainable, and would be transmitted by the Commissioner to the appropriate Special Revaluation Committee.