LAND BOARD AND MINISTER
TOUMiOIt SJiIOKIXC KXiVIAa Vtioxs. The Taranald Land Board decided it '! uesday's meeting to write to the I mlcr (Secretary for Crown Lands, asking if the statement of the Hon. Uie .Minister of Lauds, when sneaking at Onehunga reeently, was correctly reported. The (piery' specially deals with the Minister's assertions ve "harassing restrictions" as administered by the Tarauaki Board.
On the occasion referred to Mr MflJsuli is reported to have said:—'T'or a number of years much dissatisfaction had been expressed by the lease, in-pcrpetuity holders, in h'is own part of the world one of the main sources of complaint in regard to these leases had been the cultivation covenant. The .State, being the landlord, had got to see that a tenant cultivated the land in a, certain way. Anyone, kowever,, who knew anything afbout the cultivation of the so'il knew that the conditions of cultivation varied greatly in diil'crcnt localities. They could not name one form or condi-* turn that would be suitable from the North Cape to the Blulf, or that would hold good for all time. Xew ideas of methods were constantly coming into vogue, and the covenants were proving to be very harassin«- restrictions. The tenants also "complained that they were not allowed to transfer their leases without the con sent of the Land Boards, who examined intending purchasers and re■pared full information from them regarding their means, etc. He had licard of one case in the Taranaki district in which the Land Board, after examining an intending purchaser as to the state of'his banking account, refused to consent to Ihu transfer until the seller agreed to re duce his price by .UOO. The Board did not claim that the price asked was too much, but it said that, haying :i knowledge of the purchaser's liiiaucial position, it was of opinion that he could not afford to pay the rent unless the price Was reduced. The result was that the seller had to reduce his price, and thus lose XIOI), which the purchaser had been willing
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81907, 19 December 1906, Page 2
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342LAND BOARD AND MINISTER Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81907, 19 December 1906, Page 2
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