The Land Commission.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7725, 30 January 1905, Page 2

The Land Commission.

SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY. Following arc the chief points upon which the Commission is directed to make inquiry : (1) The constitution of land boards. (2) The tenures upon which lands may lie obtained and occupied, and whether in the interests of the colony any alteration of the law is desirable. (3) Whether Crown tenants labour under restrictions inimical to thai- well-being, and unnecessary in the interests of the State. (1) Whether the residential condi, lions now existing are too exact, ing, and require relaxing, und if

so, in what direction. (5) Also if alterations and variations are necessary in the law regarding tenure and occupation, owing to the varying conditions existing in respect to the climate und land configuration in the several parts of the colony. (0) Also whether it is expedient that, the homestead privileges, as indicated in the appendix to the

Land Act, 1885, should be reintroduced. (7) As to the working of the present ballot system, and the dealing with applications for land. (8) The area of lands loaded for roads, the amount of such loading, the amount expended on roads in, or givling access to, the lands loaded, whether good faith has been kept In regard to 'them, and as to the amount borrowed, silent, ; nnd available. (9) To ascertain the value of land now leased from the Crown at the time the land was so leased, and the value oif the s a :d land

at its last valuation. .(10 Whether lessees of the Crown are placed at a disadvantage in borrowing privately, or from the Advances to Settlers Ollice, 11) To ascertain the condition and position of those of our coin.

nists holding and occupying the lands of the State under the several tenures now obtaining. i(12) To consider the report of proceedings and finding ijy the Conference of Commissioners of J,andS and members of Land, Boa Ixl s held' at Wellington on the , , second, third-, and fifth days of December. 1901.. u „d to an<i advise thereon. 13) lo anvestigate and report ns to the aggregation of estates, large u'm " sm " u - lllfi maximum area which should be held under the several classes-, and if i n certain 14I? tI v ? wa * ion » <we advisable. Lni |U "' l3 and ''"Port whether each 'area oi tend i ease d ~nder the Land for Settlements Act f-liall a separate -occupier, an«l the area not to bo increased or boundaries altered without the direct sanctaon of* Parliament.