HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1894, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Friday, Jcly 20

The Speaker took the chair at 2.80 p.m. The Kaitangata Relief Fund Transfer Act Amendment Bill was read a first time.

The Married Women's Property Dili, passed by tlje Legislative Council, was vead'a firsfc tiui©.

The Standing Orders as amended were adopted. .. -^ „•{l p • , f^ The Speaker said "they tvo urd coins into force on Tuesday. . „..,., r^. The Minister of Ijands moved \\f second reading of ; . the : Band -pk^ Settlemenls Bill; He commented bn^

the fact that there was tlie .'greatest scarcity of land for settleme'trtv" r A large munbar of people were looking forward to the paa^^>j^hi3 Bill as their only hbp6.;^|j^^^^to themselves homes i# :tke%fiifift^|Ji was true that in certain parts i o£ ifhfc Colony thare were Crown lands-VfrfKl Native land?, but there were other parts where it was impossible to settle people on the land unless land were taken for settlement. It would, no doubt, be argued that there \va* no necessity for this Bil|,, because private individuals, if left to them*, selves, would cut up their J^nds* _Tp that he replied that th6 G'oVernin^fc were in a poaifcion to give better, terms than any private, owner;, r^q show how necessary was an Act siic.tt as was now proposed, he quoted the case of properties offered to^ the fiiiiiin nun nl in (i Mjjyjjiijl.J!nP^ 11 11* 11 Bay, Wellington, M^^lO^n. terbury, Otago ;he total amount ,"pf ■^h^p^^^*ed being £169,237 in- excesfr^U^ftnd tax value. '-. . .'"• ; •..,'•-;.-. . .^^-Si^i; Captain Rußsellcon^pHiftprtftedihe Minister on having-h^)UgM|| ill a much better :BiU llp;"S|p|ait year. The ;Up|ißj'\iptt^^^c P|j| w * ing out last year-e— Bitt,2Bi^|yite« rially helped him.r^ll^^^k^he Bill would not do alltl^Kn| o f Lands expected of ife: on the contrary, do 'v#xlgil^pj^m t and was not neededi, : there was no need for- tb^<s^|irilsbry expropriation authorised by 'iKtaJ^ill, because any amount tit lWid^ocrtild be acquired by ordinary negotiations between the (Jove^n* ment and the individual. Lfttjd was an absolute drug in the market. Jfc. could be bought by th/D^an|s lo¥ acres, nay, by' millions of tfcKf, oy those with capital. .Qe denied that it was an advantage to place men on the, land who had neHheryf wpiUtkiot experience. He-TieW" tbat? iniWSm checked the true spirit. of colonisation and the great spirit of's^confidence. It went in the directiob^t breaking down thrift ttnd-thfeJdvevl industry.'^ -"■ '; ' i '^ > r -y.^di After- Messrs DatKr&riv lieredHh, 1 Maokin tosh, Smith; Buddo, MeLacbJan ' and the de< bate wasmdJQuin^d onTh*Wotion of Mr Stevens. The House adjourned at 1^.^20 a.m.

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