LAND AGENTS' LICENSES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3437, 17 March 1920, Page 5

LAND AGENTS' LICENSES.

PRO'l‘EC'_l‘lNG‘ Ts}lE PUBLIC.

The issue of land agents’ licenses, said Mr Burton, S.M., at To Kuiti recently, would in future be more carefully scrutinised by himself. 111 addition to having certificates of good chal'ar3.to_~'. he thought a inagistrale should be satisfied that applicants ~'houl(l have 1:. knowledge of book-km-ping, and be able to keep trust accounts. In future an applicant for I'encwal of his license would have to uproduce a certificate fro ma qualifie:l accountant showinlg that app'licant’s; books were properly kept. and must bring the books to the Court, so tha‘. the Bench could see that cheques on trust account were not paid into gen» oral account.

Owing; to the boom in land and property, new businesses were ;<pl'inging up like mushrooms. People rushed in who had failed in all other r-ar(wr's, who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. and who, if -tlwy made a slip could fold up their tents, like Arabs. and silently steal zlwa._v. ’l‘hn public should be protected, and i 4. was the <lut_V of the Court 10 fake precantinns mmll as ho had stiggestod.