MORTGAGE RELIEF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 9

MORTGAGE RELIEF.

PROGRESS WITH APPLICATIONS,

Ter Press Association. BLENHEIM, Aug. 17. Reference to the time taken to reach a decision , iii some mortgage adjustment cases which, proved to he of a complex and varied nature was made Ly the Minister of Justice (Hon. H. G. R. Mason) in an interview to-day. Judicial work, he said, naturally took time, and the parties involved had also to be given time to prepare their cases and the Courts time to hear them. The result was that' some little while must elapse before all the work was disposed of. There were 35.000 applications to be dealt with throughout New Zealand.-These, naturally, could not all be heard at once. However, good progress was being made. “I believe they are progressing very nearly, if not quite, • as fast as could bo accomplished, no matter how many commissions were appointed, ne added. In many parts of the country the Crown was chief mortgagee, and it was of necessity taking a long time for Crown officers to value the whole of the properties involved. In the meantime some of the cases could not be brough on for hearing. However, the Crown lending departments were preparing tor the work in a systematic manner, so that all would be complete within a reasonable time. The work of clearing 111> cases would then be gieat y pedited. _____