Breach of Land Board Regulations.

Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1903, Page 3

Breach of Land Board Regulations.

There is both statute law and Land Board regulation against three consecutive crops of grain being taken off land leased from the Crown under the Land for Settlements Act, but the breach is more in evidence than the observance The Wellington Land Board dealt finally with a case it had been investigating for some time past, in which a member of the Legislature and some of his relations had been offenders, In the course of a discusaipn concerning the case, Mr Hogg, expressed his conviction that law-makers should not bo law-breakers, and on Mr Hogg’s motion the following resolution was passed ; - “As this is the first case of breaking the regulations under the Land for Settlements Act that has come Under the attention of the Board, no further action will.be taken, but the defaulters be cautioned that further breaches of the regulation will not be overlooked ; and that the selectors be required to at once lay down in grass the area so over-cropped, and that the ranger be instructed to see that this be done within one month’s time.” Three neighbours of the legislator who had followed hia bad example, were similarly warned N.Z. Times.