THE LAND COMMISSION.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 7. The following evidence was taken by the Land Commission at Maungaturoto on Friday. Mr U. U. Smith, settler, and a member of the County Council, advocated that all Crown lands should be J,hrown open under optional tenure. He believed in the freehold tenure, and thought that the Bickerslaffe (North of Auckland) K.stul« was going off so slowly because it was only offered under lease in perpetuity. Mr Charles T. Fisher, Crown tenant on lJickerstafl'e, would like the [right to acquire the freehold at the original valuation. He thought tie reason why the whole of the liickerjstaffe Estate had not been taken up was mainly because the land was r.ot offered under the optional system. Similar evidence was given by eight others, all Crown tenants on the Hickerstaffe Estate. William llailey, secretary of the Maungaturolo butter factory, said that owing to tho sale of freehold land in the district prior to the opening of Dickerstafi'e, the demand I tor land had to a great extent been satisfied, and that accounted for Birkerstaffe sections not being taken up. The Commission sits at Kawakawa on Monday.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7816, 8 May 1905, Page 3
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192THE LAND COMMISSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7816, 8 May 1905, Page 3
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