THE LAND COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7800, 17 April 1905, Page 2

THE LAND COMMISSION.

( ,V, w . Pr eas CHRIBTCHUHCH, Ajnrtt 14. the Land Commission wtlnn'iM Jay, and exaoiined a wuntoer of wEU J A. senting the Tyades and Labooq i Council, gave evidence strongly to;* favour o( the nationalisation of (kt K '-' L 7 10 fnct that the State »ma ■ purchasing land for settlement, and at the aamo time dulling its o«r« land, his Council regarded, not a* statesmanship, tut as idiocy. The sale of Crown lands should have ceased immediately the Unit was purchased. Christopher Hanson, occupier of half an aero in a workmen's hoiuotf settlement, declared himself fa favour of the late Sir John ItcKenzic'e land policy < John Scott Myers gave evidenoo on behalf of the Political Labour L/iague, and was agaimt the Government Mling- any mote land. Ho advdcated the removul of ci'ojmlmr reitrictions. Thos. Henry Overton. Pastoral («». ant. believed In periosteal re-valua- I uon, and in fixing the value at Improvements by arbitration. George Albert Lassen, Green Park. <tatod he held 000 acres under »~r? in pen>etuity, a tenure which he described as an absurd fraud. Rvery leaseholder Khould have the right of obtaining the freehold. City agitators wanted re-valuation, and that, if granted, would bnuak ud towMOffi. Many leaseholders, he said wera afraid to attend and give evideocHU ihe reason being that if UwlrteaS. uiony did not Agree with the Gov'•rniuerit's policy they would be uat on the Government's black ' lie was not prepared to (rive names of these tenants. Harry Manning, holdtt of two * laa?*.I aa ?*. " n<kr , lenßo in perpetuity, did 0 in llw 'Techold. The Comuiidsloa then rose. Tka next sitting will be hold at Cheviot ion Monday. I Th* CHHISTCUI'RCW. April 16. Jfw ivond ComiuiimJon tNirpiMc* •/- tor visiting Cheviot and Walau, and sitting ano in hei-e after Kaiter, to Uslt tho Auckland district. Thit I'lsion has been arrived at owing I® | the fuel that some of the roads la ihe North Island an- impattsable to Aiiiti'i'. 'ihe reinaindor of theSoutk Island will be flnished later.