REGISTRATION OF LAND AGENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10616, 24 April 1912, Page 5

REGISTRATION OF LAND AGENTS

THE PREMIER INTERVIEWEE!.

(By Telegraph/—Press Association.) HAMILTON, 'La 6 .t A cepiitatkm of laad .agents waited on the Premier, urging the necessity for legislation for i tihe registration, of land agents, and asked that Mr Watty's Bill be brought in as a_,Governanent measure. The Pirennisir asked? ihe vjjew of tbe. deputation, of an olgenit felling land at £SO and £6O an aoHei, and' accepting a deposit of & few pounds only. D ; .d they not think itliiati by bucßi transactions, the values were being unduly forced up above itlbe nominal vaihie. Tl.'© deputatibxr replied fthait" r2ii« was outside • the province, of the agent, and riasteft solely with' tho vendor, wlho stated M&. tercels. Mir Mackenzie aisked if such; . a stiate affairs mig!ht not be corrected. It was considered by tihe imputation that refiuijn in U'cs respect was perhaps desirably. Itfe Premier" replied tlhat not only did the Government want the status of these dealing dn land raised, hut desired to protect the public from artificial values, and to raise .thicsc small deposits. Ho dould not promise to put anylilliing on. ifche Statute Eofck tfoi.. year, but promised to go into Mr W*t!ty'is Bill tosee if anyhing could be done in tthodirect'ion indicated. He quite approved of the .status of these engaged in the sale of land being fixed and,guaranteed. Replying to a question ,by Mi* Mackenzie a& to what quaflificsv■tions a man had to carry in order to (he registered, the deputation, saiid that .was prc-pcE«l tp be -left to the local authority.