RESERVES BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 5

RESERVES BILL.

A new clause was added to the '' Re-' serves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Bill. -This that on the recomendation . of the Land Board of -the district, Grown tenants of lands other than settlement lands which have not been opened-i'or seleptiosij subject to ■ the provisions, of tie Bush , and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement; Act, 1903, or of Section 127\ of the Land Act,-1908, ! " should, be afforded .relief owin^ ; to;ex- .. (Optional" circumstaEcefe ovlr ' they have no control, preventing the ?,'■ profitable occupation of such lands, the Governor in his discretion may by proclamation declare any such sections referred to in the Land Board's recommendation to be subject to the provisions of Section 127 of tW Land Act, 1908, and may fix in the said proclamation tli© period for which the land so proclaimed would be-ex-empt from payment of next and general dates and exercise, with regard to those lands all the powers conferred on '.bin: by Section 127 of the Land Act, 1908. The proclamation would be ■ days of the date of the issue,, if Parliament was sitting, and 21 days after the opening of Parliament, if the proclamation occurred during the recess. APPROPRIATION BILL.

In moving the second reading of the Appropriation Bill, Sir Joseph Ward f congratulated members on the work thiat had 'been done.

EVENING SITTING;

In the evening, the Appropriation Bill providing for an expenditure of £5,593,473' was put through all its stages'dn both Houses; An agreement was arrived at on the Bills about which there had been a disagreement in the two Houses. Valedictory speeches were made concerning legislators who are retiring from politics. The session ended at midnight.