IRISH LAND PURCHASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9150, 20 May 1908, Page 5

IRISH LAND PURCHASE.

Received May 20, 8.8 a.m. Loudon, May 19.

The Court of Appeal in Dublin over-ruling Justice Wylie’s decision, declared that despite planters or farmers planted on estates in place of evicted tenants,offering to dispose of their interests to the Estate Commissioners in order to facilitate reinstatement of evicted tenants, the Commissioners were barred from acquiring such land against the will of the landlords.

The case arose out of the proposed acquisition under the Evicted Tenants Act 1908, of 4000 acres of the Clanricarde Estate.

The Court holds that compulsory acquisition applies only to holdings of new tenants, who though not bona-fide tenants, are using or cultivating land as ordinary farmers.