ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

-. MINISTERS 0." THE CROWN. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the Horns© of Repersentatives tlws afternoon., Ministers, 'in answer to questions, ■ ,said that every effort | was being made to bring iiß unoccu- j pied iGrawmi Jand into profitiibile utilisation, so .tliat 'tenants 'or purchasers may [become responsible fox their share offering; .thJa. ithe luvbil'it yto defray half It'lve oast cf ©rooting dividing fences between unoccupied drown faids ar.d public Reserves, and adjoining occupied land, would bo eo extremeJy heavy that no Government had yet proposed' to incur such an' expenditure, .which, in a large number of cafS&s,, wOiukl be quite .unwarranted; that the iwhole subject of organisation of tno service and the .status of the ■Civil Service, is unjdler' the consideration of ithe Government; that the question of immiiglration will receive very (carefiifl oonsidc/ratioin l ., and Government .reference to the subject will be made in tlio Financial Statement; the Government expect that, with the re-organisatian of the High Conimis?ioneir's Department, more will be done to bring ,the right cJasis of immigrants to 1 Nctv Zealand than' has .been the case in past years; that .it is proposed to amend the law reflating rto the detention of offenders under the Defence Adt; illicit important amendment* to the existing Odd Age Pension's Aqt are under consideration. if