The Land Laws.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 282, 2 December 1904, Page 2

The Land Laws.

CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. At the land conference the Minister for Lands, in opening the proceedings, congratulated the boards upon being so largely represented l . The conference, he said, was one ol the most important that had taken place in the history of the colony, since it wus essential that the conditions under which lands are settled should be the best possible and carried out with the least possible amount of friction, so that settlers might be contented, happy, amd prosperous. He courted the fullest discussion upon all matters brought before the conference, and urged those present to speak freely and unreservedly, as it was the solo desire of tho Government to obtain the opinions of members of boards who had to administer the Land Act, and us a result of thoir experience are perfectly compotent to say in what direction amendments are necessary or desirable, lie matters discussed by thp conference to-day were: (1) The qucs«on of whether Crown tenants labour under any restrictions i n i mka , to their well-being and unnecessary m the interests of the State •■ (21 arc the resfofentia, conditions too exacting, and do they require reballot system, and dealing with allocation* for lands . Various al tcrat.onsm the law were suggest wo of the most important Si„ the direction „[ g,| ving land b * »' greater discretionary* powers than they at present possess.