GROWN SETTLER AND HIS RENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3076, 22 December 1908, Page 5

GROWN SETTLER AND HIS RENT.

REBATE FOR FROMFT PAYMENT.

CHRISTMAS BOX FOR SETTLERS.

By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 21.

The question of rebates for prompt payment of rents came before Wellington Land Board to-day. The Commissioner, Mr J. McKenzie, explained that the practice in this district had been somewhat different to that followed in two districts of which he had formerly had charge—Taranaki and Auckland. In those provinces 10 per cent, rebate had been allowed on all rents if paid within a month from the due date. In tne Wellington Province he had found th" allowance in regard toland for settlements land only 5 per cent. He had considered thfi matter some months ago, but before coming to any decision he had gone round the district and met the settlers. He had come to the conclusion that whilst the settlers he had visited were doing exceptionally well, and they themselves admitted that even the allowance they ere getting was reasonable, still as all ocher land districts in the Dominion were enjoying the full benefit of the 10 per cent, rebate he saw no reason why the settlers in this district should be Seated differently. This was a matter that did not come before the Board, the Land Act specially providing that the Commissioner together with the Receiver of Land Revenue were the fole persons who had to decide the question. ' The Receiver, Mr Waite, concurred in the Commissioner's view, with the result that the 10 per cent, rebate would now be allowed on all holdings that were entitled to it for prompt payment. This would be applicable to rents due at the end of the present month, ard the Commissioner had no doubt it would be an acceptable Christmas box to the settlers.