Land Grant Revelations.
QUEBEC, April 8. The report of the Hoyal Commission appointed to investigate colonisation methods in the Province reveals extraordinary frauds practised on settlers by timber limit holders as well as a strange development of one of the paternal Acts of tho Legislature. Fifteen years ago, when Mr JJercier was in tho heyday of his power 0 TT' "» Aet - giving. ni grant of a hundred acres to every ma?, with P> or more children. The Commissioners report that speculators bought up such ands from tho grantees, and pocketed 30,000 dollars (£6000) on lots lor which they only pakl ,')0 dol-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 138, 15 June 1904, Page 2
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102Land Grant Revelations. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 138, 15 June 1904, Page 2
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