THE LAND COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7852, 19 June 1905, Page 3

THE LAND COMMISSION.

' WELLINGTON. Juno 17. When the Land Commission met this morning, Peter Heyes, Superintendent of the Advances to Settlers DepartjDent, corrected a renmrk made yesterday to the effect that the goodwill M the case of an O.R.P. • lease might he considered more valu- . ablef|hair'in L.I.P. Since thinking *''«Wser i& matter he had come to the conclusion that there was no differejßce between the two securities. In fact, if anything, in times of depression LJ.P. would ho a more valuable sepurity than O.R.P, "Mis, ho said, was •tic view of the Advances .to Settlers Board. Tho Commissioner remarked that if this was generally known it would remove a great deal of misapprehenstoti.

Alfred Richard Lyons, inspector of properties for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company ana Land Association, speaking of bringing back to their former state of produqtiveaesß the pastoral runs of the colony, said differentparts of the .country would require different treatment. Speaking generally, it would have to be done by understockini; and subdivision—not subdivision into smaller areas, but proper subdivision by fencing. Settlers should not 1» allowed to exceed a stipulated carrying capacity, as the limitation oi stocking would do more to improve the runs than anything else. He did not khoiwof one run that had ns murfa lambing country as it should lave. The spread of the Californian thistle was very .serious, and something should be done to prevent its spread in uncleancd seed for sowing. T. Humphries, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury, and -las. MacKenzfe, Commissioner of Crown Lands* Auckland, wero examined by the Commission as to the statements already made by them before the Commission'