LAND LAWS.
MANY NEW PROVISIONS, ACQUIRING FREEHOLD. (By Wire. —Parliamentary Pieportcr.) Wellington Last Night. The Land Laws Amendment Act introduced to-night is a bulky measure comprising thirty-one clauses, and containing a wide range of new provisions. Where Crown lands are sold in deferred payments the purchaser is to deposit five per cent, of the price, and will thereupon receive a. license to occupy. The balance is to be paid off in nineteen years, with interest it 5 per cent., and with the right to pay off the balance at any time A new order* of' preference fro ballots under the Land Act is fixed. The following are to have preference equally over all other applicants: (a) Landless applicants who have children dependent upon them; (b) landless applicants who within two years have been unsuccessful at ballots under the Land Act or the Land for Settlement Act; (c) applicants who have served abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; (d) applicants who were bona fide residents of New Zealand prior to the war, and served with some force other than the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In the case of other applicants, those who are landless shall have preference over those who are not landless.
Tin? provision of tin? Land Act requiring that one-third of the periodical payments made on land being purchased or of the rent of lease in perpetuity land is to be ear-marked for the construction of roads and bridges is to be extended to cover pastoral land held under lease iif the Hauraki, Westland and Ivaramea mining districts.
Endowment lands are dealt with by the stipulation that no land shall hereRfter become national endowment laud bv reason of the. operation of section 2,>S of the Lan 4 -^ c *' J AOS- It is also statled that the Governor-General may frpm time to time by proclamation appro'ved in executive council declare that (a) any unoccupied national endowment lnnil. not exceeding in the aggregate 10,000 a\:res. or (b) any national endowment iian.l dUnoscd n{ uud«r th» Disohargcd Sul-
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 5
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337LAND LAWS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 5
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