THE LAND COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7843, 8 June 1905, Page 2

THE LAND COMMISSION.

(Per Press Association.) DANNEVJBKE, June 7. After the luncheon adjournment J. A. llobertson, a surveyor holding eluven hundred acres in the IMangu-t-oro special .settlement on le&se-in-perpetuity, said he was satisfied with that tenure, but had been asked by neighbours to represent their views. They thought one member ol each Jj«n<J Hoard should be elected by tho settlers, awl tliul nil lessees .should have tho right of purchaso. lie considered the system of loading lands for roads wrong, it gave extra value to the land on which tho local body rated. He objected to compulsory residence on the Vifrckblocks, owing the difficulty ol obtaining] doctoiV services, except at enormous icost. To Mr Paul : Did not think settlers proposed to pay tho Government for tho enhanced value If the freehold was gvuntod. Thomas Stewart, farming 1 r,OO of freehold at Titree Tolnt, favoured freehold because a settler felt) more .secure under thut tenure. I but he liked a leuse with the right to purchaso. !•< A. Cunningham, farming 1100 acres at MynMiloro, said ho was satisfied with the Lenure. Ho had been askud'by tho Farmers' Vnion to support freehold. In answer to a fluextion witness admitted' that settlers who had asked him t„ K j V e uv id,.noe had not discussed the matter in all [its bearings. William Wylie, holding <1(il ncrcs <m lease, with right oi pin-chase at Nwypaeruni, snid tho settlors inl ihis ,K St,ICt ,i' lVollml freehold because they could not sell lease-in-perpetult t.\ as well as freehold. The Commission left in tKo afternoon lor Waipukurau.