COMPLAINTS OF SETTLERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1330, 25 October 1884, Page 4

COMPLAINTS OF SETTLERS.

i , ::• AssQci^tiori. j i-'- r '■•'■ ' ■ Inyercargill, October 23. The Crown Lai.ds R<\nger to-day inkprme.d,'the Land 1 Boai'd- hat some holders !of village; sections had comp'.ained to him ttfai it was very hard that they, having I taken up an acr<s «■£ two of land on deferred I payment, shcald be debarred forever for ■ increasing their acreage. Mr Lumsden ■considered that that was the weak point m the Act. It was impossible for them to imake a liviug on two or three acres, and the law made no p'ovisions for increasing i their, holdings as their circumstaneeß^im- ■ provedi >J The system wi s a direct blow at the root of i; the .settlement scheme^ He im'pve'd, That m the opinion of the board the provisions jof'the; Land Act ' villiage and, «aburban defe.Ted-payment selectors from; becoming selectors of 'rural sections.-, is impolitic- and adverse , to the : interests ■• of • settlement'^ It was •'carried; C t n the suggestion , of, Mr Spenpv Chief Conim issio'n er, who'gre sidad f or 'the 'first_ Itime," it was' further* fesolved'fo add a retcommendation that selectors who become .freeholders shall be allowed to select up to V maximum area.,. .. ... r - . >■■