CROWN LESSEES
WANT THE FREEHOLD. NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS IN QUESTION. The Lands Committee, reporting in Parliament yesterday afternoon upon tho petition of J. H. Schmidt and other Crown tenants who desired the option of converting national endowment and other leases into freeholds on tho same conditions as at Manunui, Rangataua, and Obakuno, stated that they had no recommendation, to make. Several members supported the petition, because, in their opinion, something more was necessary to protect lessees from the loss of their interest in their improvements, otherwise tho land would not be used to tho best advantage. The Prime Minister stated that the subject would receive very careful attention from tlie Government, and he regretted that the petition had come before the House too late to deal with it this session. Ho had already done what ho could to safeguard improvements under leases, and he thought that Parliament might legislate next session.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9794, 18 October 1917, Page 5
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150CROWN LESSEES New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9794, 18 October 1917, Page 5
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