LAND LAWS AMENDMENT BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8554, 12 October 1907, Page 5

LAND LAWS AMENDMENT BILL.

(By Telegraph—Parliamentary Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, October 11. In the House the afternoon and evening sittings were devoted to the further consideration of the Land Laws Amendment Bill in Committee. At the new clause'inserted by the Lands Committee, making provision for recording improvements, Messrs J. Allen, Hei'rics Slid Messty moved various amendments which were hopejessly outvoted. At the new clause providing that a lessee shall not be entitled to assign or otherwise dispose of his interest in land unless he has resided continuously thereon for not less than two years, Mr G. Witty moved to strike out "two" with a view to inserting "four". His object, he explained, was to prevent dummyism. Mr A..W. Hogg, in supporting the amendment, stated that the necessity for some such provision for checking dummyism had been impressed upon him as a former member of the Land Board. In his opinion greater power should, be given to Land Boards to discriminate who were bona fide settlers. The amendment was lost by 47 y .)tes to 18. There appears no possibility of the Bill being amended in an> direction other than that which may be suggested by the Minister.